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Have an API to communicate with Storage Insights

We want to integrate Storage Insights alerts into our monitoring tool. Should be able to communicate with Storage Insights through an API to receive alerts etc. and have them processed by our monitoring tool.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 4 Not under consideration

Provide a command to set the "replace"-flag to disks in missing state, so a callhome is triggered.

Disks in state "missing/drained" are not treated as replaceable disks by design, and so they do not trigger a call home. But because many of these disks are indeed broken, it would be useful if the administrator could run a command or use a GUI bu...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Planned for future release

additional status "MAINTENANCE" for drives and paths

Drives and paths only the both status' ONLINE and OFFLINE. An additional one "MAINTENANCE" or "OFFLINE asap" would be extremely useful for the preparation of maintenance (especially unplanned due to an error) to get a library free of accesses.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

parallel SAP HANA Log Backup of HDBBackint to two destinations

customer wants to change the way HDBackint works with two destinations.'REDOLOG_COPIES 2' is slower than'REDOLOG_COPIES 1', because of the way how the logs are being processedby hdbbackint:.hdbbackint uses one thread for reading a data buffer from...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Not under consideration

SPP report creation

Spectrum Protect Plus has very interesting reports, but we need some individual views in virtual machine backup. We need to know, for example, the time and end of the backup of a respective VM individually and not just the time that the total SLA ...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add Report in Spectrum Protect Plus for daily growth of each vSnap server

One of our Enterprise customer want to know via Report - daily growth of each vSnap server (he has 6 vSnap Servers)
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

VM's Removing from SLA

We have identified and issue where VM's are automatically removing from SLA due to xyz reason and got to know this is as per design. So we should have some info report where we can see how many VM's removed automatically from SLA after last backup...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Encryption: Switching between Local and External Encryption

Many customers today, like this one, start with Local encryption. Also as this is cheaper, and less effort, than purchasing GKLM. And Local is often initially enough, for data-at-rest encryption. But later on they hear about IFCES (IBM Fibre Chann...
almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

vSNAP space reclamation

Currently, when a pool's capacity decreases ie by the expiration of backups, the vSNAP server doesn't seem to issue any kind of zero-ing or SCSI Unmap command to let the underlying infrastructure reclaim the space.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

TS7700 Set LVOL to non used state for removing a TMC range

The customer wants a way to set a volser or a range of volsers to a state that will prevent the tape from being mounted as a scratch in preparation to remove the volser or range of volsers from the TMC.
over 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Planned for future release

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