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IBM CSM API Should Show all DS8 Session/LSS/SSID In Hexadecimal to Correctly Reflect The Values on the Hardware

We recently encountered a discrepancy in our API reporting from CSM where the Session ID was not matching what is in the GUI (and on the actual DS8 hardware), and it turned out that from the CSM/web/sessions URI, all of the session/LSS/SSID values...
about 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Is a defect

Support for the Domino client beyond V7.1 EOS (12/31/2021)

The Domino client is still on version 7.1 and will get out of support on 12/31/2021. Even if there is no further development planned, there should be support available for customers using Domino.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Planned for future release

TS7770 - Add a description field to the category define area allowing us to name our categories in a GRID.

It allows the engineer to quickly identify in the MI, who the categories belong to when sharing a GRID with multiple sysplex's. The description would be editable.
4 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

zHyperlink performance monitoring

Spectrum Control is a tool that customer use to manage their capacity, performance and other metrics of Storage environments. Although the Tool/Software have a lot of functions, I realized the zHyperlink performance monitoring aren't one of their ...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 3 Future consideration

Activity report and Security Posture Report grouped by Business

Would be good to have customizable reports on Defender to have the ability to build custom reports . The prime use case I see (customer asked for) is to be able to provide a report for a given business application which woud be composed of VMs and...
over 1 year ago in Storage Defender 1 Planned for future release

document privateSubnetOverride and make it switchable without shutting doen the whole cluster

This helps in adding (additional) high performance networks to existing clusters
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

vsphere CSI support in Spectrum Protect Plus

We're asking for SPP to support vsphere CSI driver in container environment
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SAEE - Ability to change behavior of tape drive selection mechanism for transparent recalls to use also redundant copy and distribute workload to all copies

Customer can use all available HW resources - all tape drives in all tape libraries for transparent recalls and increase throughput of recalls. It could be fine If I can set copies which will be available for transparent recalls. Customer faces pr...
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Future consideration

A flexible way to prestage LV into VTS cache

Today, there is no native zOS utility available that recalls(prestages) all the needed LogicalVolumes in an effective and automated way back into the VTS cache.
about 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

SSL CA certificates expiration date monitoring

We would like to have possibility of monitoring expiration date of SSL signed certificates by Customer CA through IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center and have ability to perform certificate renewal if possible. This would be a huge improvement ...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

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