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Multiple Recovery Volumes from same SGC Backup volume

The ability to have multiple R (Recovery) Volumes from the same B (Backup) volumes would support where one R volume is presented to infrastructure for forensic analysis and cleaning etc., and another R volume from the same B source presented to ot...
about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Backup of encrypted vSphere 6.5 environments

Currently there is no support for backups of encrypted vSphere 6.5 environments with TSM/ISP4VE (which is stated in the documentation). Due to the fact that some customers require encryption for their VMware environments, support for the new (V6.5...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Add Spectrum Scale with SSH key in Spectrum Control

Currently Spectrum Scale can be added only with password authorization. Requet is to implement SSH key authorization. Once user password is changed in Spectrum Scale , we lose collecting data until password is changed in Spectrum Control according...
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Planned for future release

Provide a "number of days" parameter so the "SUR Occupancy data" can be collected less than the set value of once a week.

THis is very valuable for BackEnd Licensing purposes. As example, we show to be 6 TB out of compliance, but in the last 5 days we have deleted 11 TB. Yet we still show as being out of compliance because the "SUR Occupancy data" is so far out of da...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Include Custom Roles in LDAP Export

Small ask on DS8 configuration. When setting up security on DS8s we create custom roles in addition to the administrator and monitor roles. When we export the LDAP Remote Authentication configuration to import into another DS8 the custom roles are...
5 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

Disable E-mail (and other) notifications temporarily

We are using a Notification alerting on CSM and it works well, however we would like to have a possibility of temporarily suppressing it when one does planned activity like increasing volume size (it requires breaking the mirroring, removing copy ...
9 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Print QR code when setting up MFA in dsmadmc

The new MFA/TOTP support for admin accounts is great, but it's cumbersome to set up when using dsmadmc due to the need to manually enter the shared secret in the MFA smartphone app. The solution is to print a QR code, and that works fine even in a...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Support for Overlay-FS for disk that are provisioned per CNSA/Storage Scale

We want to use Storage Scale with the CNSA-Implementation also with the requirement to use this for the Image-Building Process like BUILDKIT. But this doesnt work today becouse of missing Overlay-FS Support. The benefit will be to use more then on...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

SnapDiff API v2

As written in the NetApp KB, ISP is not able to use the SnapDiff API *v2*. https://kb.netapp.com/Advice_and_Troubleshooting/Data_Protection_and_Security/SnapDiff/When_performing_a_SnapDiff_incremental_backup_of_a_FlexGroup_volume%2C_Spectrum_Prote...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

TSM B/A Client "archive vm" equivalent of "backup vm"

In the current TSM b/a client for windows (with VMware tools), there is a "backup vm" command that will perform full image or file level backups for VM guests. There is no option to perform an archive (file level or image) We need the ability to a...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

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