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Digital Encryption Key delete notification upon pool or rank removal

Upon child pool deletion (or rank deletion) CLI response and GUI popup will display a confirmation message that confirms the deletion of the encryption key and constitutes NIST compliant crypto erasure.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Changing the mnt directory from root to dedicated file system

If we have a dedicated filesystem, it won't affect the space on root file system on Production servers. In our environment only, we faced the situation like the root file system is full due to this /mnt/spp/vsnapx/fspooly/ directory.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Incluir a possibilidade de desativar a vizualização no actlog de algumas mensagens.

O actlog é uma ferramente importante para a administração do sistema, porem em alguns casos a quantidade de informaçẽs que ali são exibidas dificultam a utilização do mesmo para monitorar e diganosticar algumas taregas e eventos. Sugiro a opação d...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

IBM SP Client/API encryption

Allow the client and api to use external source for encryption keys storage, like SKLM.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Future consideration

Fine(r) grained RBAC model

As of today Spectrum is having hability to grant rights according to end user profile. A user can be for example a collection admin or a data user having then a set of predefined permissions. Would it be possible to assign finer permissions based ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

improvements of the RC handling in the CSMCLI framework

For automation it would be easier if a validation of the return code is sufficient for successful CSMCLI command execution.Any Messages not equal Info Messages should result in a RC <> 0
almost 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Have the ability to choose the backup node in oracle

Spectrum protect plus does not currently have the ability to choose the preferred node for backups in the case of oracles like in the exchange for example, and we have this in question for some customers, who do not want to change in oracle
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

TSM repository server is not supported as catalog backup target for SPP+ (enable catalog backup to repository server)

Using the SPP+ gui you can select a TSM repository server as a target for catalog backup for SPP+. I have opened a call with IBM support (TS013178083) because at 10.1.14-217 release at least of SPP+ no matter how you configure the TSM S3 repositor...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Enhancemnt request for setup.sh in TDP HANA 8.1.1.0 for non-local sidadm users support

We had opened case (TS001622349) as we were getting user related error while running setup.sh for Data Protection for SAP HANA 8.1.1.0 because we are not using local user. hanatest02:/opt/tivoli/tsm/tdp_hana # ./setup.shIBM Spectrum Protect for En...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 3 Future consideration

Copy Services Manager - Need active/active or autofailover when HMC connection fails

During a storage migration the Copy Services Manager server lost communication with the DS8886 HMC. The replication status and control was unavailable until the HMC was rebooted. CSM should use both HMCs of the DS8886 and not have a single point o...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

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