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    This RFE is to request that CSM can perhaps issue the remove LSS session later in the process after soft fence in storage volumes is released

    This RFE will enable development to do code change to resolve CSM issue customer encountered.
    11 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Create a REST API for the DS8910 to Discard/Delete acquired Token

    Currently there is no way to logout from a REST API session on the DS8910. This leaves authorization tokens until the expiration period expires enabling them to be used subsequently by another process or user. This will tighten the REST API securi...
    over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

    We would like to be able to backup AWS S3 buckets

    We have many AWS S3 buckets that users update every day. Versioning is very expensive as there is no dedup/compression and this is especially true if you replicate across AWS regions. We would like to be able to backup and restore files to S3 like...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Under review

    Object Lock / Immutability with SP/P with Hitachi Cloud Scale

    In alignment with our Cyber Resiliency sales play many of our clients are looking at ways to utilise the assets they already have purchased to "sure up" their infrastructure. We know data management solutions are a target of internal and external ...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Deleting specific restore points for vms and applications

    Release 10.1.7 allows to delete restore points for vm and application backups on a backup job level (for specific job sessions or for all backup jobs of a certail sla policy).More granular restore point deletion options are needed (e.g. delete spe...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    SPP VM Backup report shape

    VM backup report : all VMmane and details need to be on 1 line only to be usable for further use of selecting and data filtering. I attached VM_Backup_new_look_proposal.xls file which illustrate how we wish to have it. All build-in reports should ...
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    Add root cause Db2 messages to job log in SPP

    When a DB2 restore job in SPP fails, the DB2 message including the root cause of this failure is not shown in the job log. And therefore not on the ISPP gui itself. For finding the cause why the job failed, you need to logon to the ISPP server, di...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    CSM Co-existance with lower-level or different level CSM.

    2. The ability for CSM software to co-exist with a lower-level or different-level CSM software in a CSM configuration where they are sharing one or the same CSM database.
    over 7 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

    CES NFS - identify client stale I/O errors

    Following case - TS018623841.Client NFS when working with several NFS clients - each mounting different CES NFS node , loading python modules - get Stale I/O in random steps. 1. Same python is used through the same script.2. We use autofs to mount...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    TAPETOOLS should be part of z/OS

    TAPETOOLS is currently shipped as a set of stand alone utilities. These need to be updated on a regular basis. The process of white washing Internet downloads and introducing them to the z/OS environment is getting very restrictive at some custome...
    over 6 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

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