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CSM API token generation without a user ID & password

Using CSM API, we are planning to manage our recovery procedures. But the major roadblock is password generation for CSM. Because of audit concerns we cannot have a static password for a ID. So, because of this, we are unable to make the procedure...
over 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

CES Group failover, within the locality, when using a stretched cluster

Client in a active-active Spectrum Scale stretched cluster using protocol nodes. They have 6 protocol nodes in total. Nowadays, in case of 1 node failure, the CES IP can be failover to any nodes, either in the same site or to the remote site. This...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

To fix the the Container storagepool mismatch utilization issue

Protect: IBM Spectrum Protect (Server)Environment: Banking Issue statement: Backups started failing with 'out of space' issue even-though the Container stgpool utilization was just showing 61%. When checked from 'show sdpool' we could see there wa...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

SPP default policy creation after software upgrade

At initial install some SLA policies are created by default. I have no containers and Amazon EC2 instances to protect, so I don't need the default policies "Container" and "EC2" and have deleted both policies. But they are recreated after every sy...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Is a defect

Logging of details for files deleted by dsmc delete on Spectrum Protect client

If on a client node an administrator deletes files using the dsmc delete arch or dsmc delete back there is no detailed logging of the deleted files neither on the ISP server nor on the ISP client. You only have the number of deleted files in the a...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Future consideration

No direct support for open-source database like Mongo DB,Cassandra, MySQL, MariaDB,PostgreSQL

Why: Robust one stop backup solution and no need for additional storage to perform local native backup, optimized performance and granular recovery. Who Would Benefit:Application users , System admins , DB admins and organizational leadership. How...
12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

No native backup support for Nutanix

Why: Seamless integration, optimized performance, granular recovery, compliance adherence, and vendor support contribute to a robust backup solution within the Nutanix VM environment. Note: Currently it is supported by Storage Defender but it requ...
12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Add DA pair column to DS8000 drives listing

Please add a DA pair column to DS8000 drives (DDM) listings. Within a DS8000, spare drives are restricted to the device adapters they are connected to. And each device adapter pair has a number of available spares, usually 4. It is threrefore impo...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Add support for direct attached tape by updating the interface to adhere to more recent standards (Fibre Channel, Ethernet, iSCSI) to support standalone connection to Power10

Currently the external tape drive supports 8Gb/s Fibre Channel which is N-3. Updating to 16Gb/s or 32Gb/s or 64Gb/s as well as adding support for Ethernet and iSCSI connectivity is required. This will enable greater flexibility, resiliency and per...
over 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 3 Planned for future release

IBM Storage Snapshots support for Virtualize, Flash Systems and Storwize in SPP

SPP should be able to benefit from IBM Storage Snapshots (Flash Copy) during backup by using them to minimize the impact of the backup on the system to be backed up and, if necessary, to accelerate the backup process.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family 3 Planned for future release

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