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Unable to change the HOSTNAME in rsyslog

Customer is not able to change the hostname of the library for the rsyslog. Request is to have a GUI function for the customer to change this field within the database.
almost 3 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 3 Delivered
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Request for TSM to handle different retentions for Virtual Environments

To be able to perform Incremental forever backups using different retentions (such as daily, monthly and anually). Currently, TSM for VE cannot use the same set of backups to assign different retentions. Only one management class is possible.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 5 Delivered

Regional (asych) Disaster Recovery for with Fusion software

Regional (asych) Disaster Recovery for with Fusion software
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 9 Delivered

DS8K Safeguard Copy Integration with IBM Qradar

Customer keen in exploring ways of using DS8000 Safeguard copy to integrate with IBM Qradar, to enhance their Cyber and Data Resiliency. We've this new offerings in Flashsystem with Spectrum Virtualize product family, but no plan for DS8000.
almost 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Delivered

IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot (FlashCopy Manager) support for SAP HANA

Enable IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot to take a hardware based snapshot for a system running SAP HANA on either IBM Linux on Power or Linux. In essence addition of SAP HANA to the already supported applications/databases of IBM Spectrum Protect Sna...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Delivered

Allow full Box or multiple Subsystem selections in ESE and SGC Sizer sessions

When ESEsizer or SGCsizer sessions are configured, typically they are configured for a large amount of LSS/LCUs if not even for all volumes configured on the system. However, the Copy Set selection wizard does not allow to proceed, when only a sys...
5 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Delivered

SCSI Unmap support Hitachi Data Systems VSP Series

We are reqeusting the support of the SCSI Unmap command for Hitachi Data Systems VSP Series on Spectrum Virtualize systems.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

TS4500 media end-of-life monitoring

LTO and 3592 (Jaguar) media have a limited lifetime based on some specific internal measurements like number of loads, number of times completely written/read. The drive posts an alert once one of these internal thresholds have been crossed. At a ...
over 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 6 Delivered

Builtin scheduler for creating Spectrum Virtualize snapshots

Customer had a competitor's array which has a builtin scheduler for creating snapshots. He is requesting same functionality. We have SPP to address some requirements but not all, for e.g. file and print volumes which are really large
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Delivered

Different email sender and contact email address for Spec V products

To have different email sender and customer contact email address in the callhome settings.(this is possible in FlashSystem A9000/R - but not in SpecV products)
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Delivered

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