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Adding Support for Multi Target PPRC in CSM for Hitachi VSP5000 Systems

We use in our Datacenter for migration last year multi target concept to migrate our old vsp to new one and use Hittachi TrueCopy and CSM to do that. We see that also Multitarget PPRC are working as expectetd but we missed the complete support of ...
12 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Operations Center Security Exposure IBM-OC Administrator

IBM-OC-XXXXXX is an exposure and should refuse logins or updates like SERVER_CONSOLE. The message in the web access to OC should also occur with login to admin client, with any attempt to change the password, or any attempt to modify or use this u...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Improvement in Data connections filter in UI

In the Spectrum Discover web interface under "main menu" -> "Data Connections" -> "Connections" a filter would be very useful especially because we are already dealing with more than 300 data sources. At the moment it is very cumbersome to f...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Functionality already exists

Enable Replication to start on backup completion rather than having to state a start time

Enable Replication to start on backup completion rather than having to state a start time.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Not under consideration

Drive letter definition per Windows client.

Currently Windows client mount drive letters can only be defined when a cluster is created. This is inflexible if a drive letter is not defined on a cluster and Windows clients need adding later. The only workaround is to create a remote cluster t...
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Functionality already exists

gskcrypt64-8.0.55 rpm packages require invalid binary files /bin/ln and /bin/sh

For a long time RHEL has provided both /bin/X and /usr/bin/X even though the packages only install /usr/bin/X This is true for RHEL7, RHEL8 and RHEL9 The gskcrypt64 package should have been changed a long time ago to require /usr/bin/X components ...
6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

Openshift-image-registry to be Included in Backup

Fusion UI does not display the namespace openshift-image-registry which is required during Recovery of Full Cluster.
12 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

spectrum Protect Plus reports is missing

Requests to add to the report's data of who performed the recovery.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus add Zero Trust Compliance to match Spectrum Protect Implementation

We are looking for Dual admin execution for removal of backup data. Similar to Spectrum Protect.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Need better support to use specific CSM server IP address/hostname

Currently CSM does not have a documented way to define a specific IP address or hostname to be used for the CSM service. I found following potential places where this can be configured, but there could be other places as well: - ../wlp/usr/servers...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

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