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Change the user running admin schedules

It would be good to have some system user running the admin schedules instead of the last user updating/creating the schedule. To avoid schedules failing due to admins getting removed from the environment.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Support of custom tolerations for Fusion base, backup services and non-core services

Reduce VPC requirements on worker nodes, reducing cost of CPK and OCP licenses allowing base & backup services to run on infra-nodes
almost 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

CSM - Automatically Synchronise Standby Server Sessions After IPL.

We have two DS8000 Controllers in a full MM - Hyperswap Configuration. We have two CSM Sessions running on two different LPARS in our SYSPLEX. ( LPAR1 (Primary ) and LPAR2 (Standby) ) We observe that after IPL of the LPAR2 ( Configured as the Stan...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Not under consideration

DSCLI updated to work with Azul JAVA

Oracle are looking to charge customers for JAVA utilities. https://redresscompliance.com/decoding-oracle-java-licensing-java-licensing-changes-2023/#:~:text=entire%20employee%20population.-,Did%20Oracle%20change%20the%20Java%20license%3F,old%20PRO...
about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

Monitor Spectrum Archive components in mmhealth

Spectrum Archive is missing from mmhealty. Please add monitoring of services and sub-component status similar to tiering to cloud. Lots of library, drive, cartridge and task statuses are easily available from the eeadm command.
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Update CopyOperator role in IBM Spectrum Virtualize

IBM SVC v8.2.1.9IBM CSM v6.2.8 >Trying to execute CSM FlashCopy sessions to SVC controllers and CSMSERVICE account needs 'Administrator' role access as the 'CopyOperator' privelidges are insufficent. > Unfortunately the 'CopyOperator' group ...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

Enterprise Class Encryption at rest i n Spectrum Protect Plus

Please add an encryption at rest capability with KMIP integration for external key management systems such as IBM SKLM
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

gpfs client support rocky linux

we expect gpfs client support more operation systems to meet the needs of mostusers， for example rocky linux
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

SP Plus interface enhancement: vm search and selection

In the SP Plus interface, in the backup tab (/pages/hypervisor/vmware/backup) , while searching a VM to assign it to a particular SLA Policy, it would be nice to have a filter available to limit the scope of the search. First thing I think about i...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

add multipath support into vsnap and vadp packages

Few vsnap or vadp are currently operated on hardware, but customers with large environments who want to back up many VMs or databases and store them on SAN volumes or use the SAN transport method. They have to take care of the multipath support ma...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family 3 Future consideration

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