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Display freeze time for Remote Copy relationships in Storage Insights and allow thresholds to be set for freeze time so alerts can be sent when freeze time is more than a certain number of minutes out of sync

This idea is being submitted to let IBM know that they need to find a way to add alert definitions in Storage Insights that would allow administrators to monitor the freeze time for Remote Copy groups and change/set the threshold so administrators...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 4 Not under consideration

Ability to upgrade CSM via the DS8000 GUI or embedded CLI

Having CSM integrated onto the DS8000 HMCs has been very helpful for a number of clients. Currently, however, it is only possible for a client to upgrade CSM to a desired level via the external DSCLI. For most clients that use CSM on the HMC, this...
almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

SPP File restore selection and Progress

SPP File restore has good feature but selecting restore files is really not easy.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

SPP: NAT connection trough dedicated vLAN

SPP server has configured NAT with additional 3 network IP's. The same vLAN's are configured in the vSNAP server + proxy combo (IBM appliance).During Backup/Restore operation SPP communicate with client with correct IP (different than managment). ...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 5 Future consideration

Throttle option for SCSI UNMAP to backend mdisk

Request for Spectrum Virtualize software ability to control the rate of SCSI UNMAP workload sent to backend mdisks. When vdisk remove is executed on non-DRP pool, the rate of UNMAP commands to backend appear unlimited and need to have ability to c...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Fiserv is looking for MFA support with Microsoft Entra ID on IBM DS8900 storage arrays.

Fiserv is standardizing on Microsoft Entra ID for MFA and asking all of their storage vendors to certify Entra ID with their products.
9 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

TS7700 Rsyslog add possibility to select log types that are sent using RSyslog

From the MI we can select the messages that we want to send to a Rsyslog server but not the log types. From the documentation: Items 0 through 15 are system defaults and items 16 through 18 are specific to TS7700. So we wish to be able to select o...
about 1 year ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

SPP reporting for Daily, Monthly backup status

SPP reporting has currently some good reports but there is no report with clear Backup completion report.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Display more detailed information in the Storage Insights Ticket dashboard

SI is a great pan of glass to Monitor, Manage and track issue on storage environment.When using the Device Ticket Dashboard, user see only the ticket number ( RCMS, RETAIN , Salesforce) but detailed information are missing.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

LDAP - implement nested groups support

Enterprise environments that implement LDAP need to support LDAP nested groups.
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Future consideration

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