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    Enhanced Resiliency when CSM has multiple connections to a DS8000

    It is possible to connect CSM to a specific DS8000 via multiple simultaneous methods. For instance, connections can be created through both DS8000 HMCs and through z/OS connectivity at the same time. In the case that a query or eligible command fa...
    7 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Pause SGC Backups per a Defined Schedule

    This idea builds upon CSM-I-204. Beyond the basic capability for CSM temporarily pause SGC Backups, if CSM could accept an input file that contained a schedule of the year's holidays (and weekends) for which the client wants to pause SGC processin...
    7 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Join/SFMP support for RHEL 9/10

    Please add Join/SFMP support to lin_tape driver to allow customers running 3rd party backup softwares utilizing it from RHEL8 to RHEL 9 (and eventually to RHEL 10).
    7 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    SPP M365 Backup via Proxy

    Several clients are enforcing the usage of a client provided HTTP/HTTPS proxy server to grant systems access to the Internet. In such case the IP network traffic is not routed through the default gateway. That is the reason why a client proxy need...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    Ubuntu on s390x support for Spectrum Project Client

    Originally requested in 2019 and was marked for future consideration, IBM support Ubuntu on s390x Linux on Z however does not provide a backup client for Spectrum on an IBM platform s390x Linux on Z.
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

    Enhance mmshutdown confirm shutdown logic to make it ctrl-c resistend.

    We had a maintenance window and want to update a storage-cluster that own 20 FS for native K8s and OCP-Clusters. We see if a additionally mmshutdown are happen and the Admin make on the prompt a ctl-c the shutdown process are working together and ...
    11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Protect Plus support for 3rd party software installation for monitoring/automation software

    ISP+ Produkt support is needed for the OVA and RHEL deployment, to install 3rd Party monitoring and automation software at the ISPP vSnap and ISPP operatingsystem layer. The ISP+ Bluprint documentation explicitly dismiss the installation for 3rd p...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    GPFS instead of ZFS

    Instead of ZFS we'd appreciate use of GPFS/Spectrum Scale with Protocols. The IBM Product has all capabilities to ensure a stable and scale-out infrastructure which is supported in all current Kernel Levels.Using GPFS will not have the impact on t...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Add basic Hardware Monitoring to Storage Insight for b-type SAN Switches

    I would like to see the feature implemented into the Cloud Version of Storage Insights. We have added all our Storage, SVCs and SAN Switches to have a single pane of glass for our storage networking. We believed that hardware error events would sh...
    11 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Needs more information

    Add auto resize of target volumes when Refreshing a volume group

    Currently if a VG refresh has a target volume that has been expanded, you have to manually shrink it before refreshing it from the source again. If we've already decided to refresh the volume, we don't expect any data to remain, so having to alway...
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

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