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    Spectrum Protect - Copy Retention Sets to Azure Archive Layer

    Customer is looking to use the Copy Retention Sets to Cloud as introduced in 8.1.13. They have an existing storage agreement with Azure and so will be using this. Noted that the release includes support for Archive Storage in both AWS and IBM Clou...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

    Implementation of DIMM error checking at IBM Storage Scale Systems

    It would be helpful to implement an DIMM error checking, which is raising a warning, when a memory DIMM is throwing to much errors.In the current ESS versions, we don't have such an checking in place. Massive recoverable DIMM errors will not be re...
    12 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Under review

    ALL volume view

    As a spectrum control user there's the option to view ALL volumes without drilling to individual storage systems, This would be a very useful addition so Storage insights
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Implement SMTP Authenticated access for Operation Center

    Currently in all Spectrum Protect versions, we can only connect to an open mail relay in order to send email alerts or reports via the operations center. However the new trend today is to have the mail servers located in the cloud and any access t...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

    Implement the possibility to balance host I/O throttling on cache partition level

    When TS7700 runs into host I/O throttling, this throttling is equal across all CPx partitions today. Since work load on different CPx may have higher or lower priority in the business/application context, it is required to have the possibility to ...
    over 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    DS8A hardware support for a Copy target to be the source for multi target copy relation

    Note: This case describes the need within a MGM4 solution, but could apply to certain setup in other 3-4-6 site solutions as well. We are in the progress of moving to a MGM4 solution with copy relation A-B-C-D. A C| / |B D In current design we can...
    4 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    Possibility to deploy/update Client Management Services (CMS) using Spectrum Protect Operation Center

    Update of Client Management Services (CMS) using Spectrum Protect Operation Center is not possible.
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

    Predicting/built-in intelligence

    Today there are many repeatable task and manual human interaction to administer Spectrum Protect/Spectrum Protect Plus software. Examples: adjusting space reclamation, validate database backups, copy storage pool, protect storage pool processes, r...
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    non-root users access behaviour with version SP 8

    Customer needs for SP version 8 to allow "other users" (non-root users and not "authorized users" for SP point of view) to use dsmc in order to restore their files The requirement is to continue with behaviour as per TSM 7.16 (https://www.ibm.com/...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

    DS8910F REST-API Temperature

    Hello IBM, we want to monitoring the temperature of the DS8910F. As we already know, there are three possible options: Option 1: The GUI shows the temperature as follows: GUI -> Monitoring -> Performance -> Metrics -> Environment ->...
    8 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

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