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    Allow user to display "volume full name" and "volume short name" at his conveniance using existing table twistie

    In huges banking Z/os csm implamentation, we can deal with many DS8000 having each more than 100 000 volumes. Having this ability will avoid fingerchecks when usin CSM GUI to perform troubleshooting tasks when things are not work as expected.
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Migrate data from Spectrum Protect (Existing S3 pools to different Cloud Object Storage)

    To migrate data from existing IBM Clever Safe Object Storage bucket to different S3 compatible buckets using Spectrum Protect TSM server.
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    SI Pro updating frequency- SI is not updating some very crucial statistics very often

    mQRYFpfptBannerStart This Message Is From an External Sender This message came from outside your organization. Hi Manish We have noticed that SI is not updating some very crucial statistics very often. For an example, volume group snapshots and po...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Under review

    Spectrum Control on Red Hat on Power LE

    Spectrum Control need to run on these architectures: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (may be other distributions) on Power Little Endian Architectures (RHEL 8.x LE on S9xx L servers, LCxxx servers, AC922 servers). All the stack is from IBM or subsidiaries.
    over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 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 7 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    The replication vSnap needs to be on a VPN

    The issue is not the existence of that replication partner, the issue is the NAT. The following happens: 1. vSnap1 connects to vSnap-VADP host name and requests the IP interfaces to connect to 2. vsnap-vadp check in the list of its network interfa...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    Add VMware Tape support to ISP Server

    Today ISP is supported as an ESX Guest but with a carve out for tape.https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21239546#VMware%20ESX%20Guest Historically this was due to the ESX 5.x limitation that explicitly did not support tape. VMware h...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Warrining Alerts Option to be made Available

    We had recent case with one of private sector banking customer using DS8K for their most critical database. Due to one of the controller one disk reporting "disk operation errors" entire controller went offline impacting their business. In AIX we ...
    7 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

    Alerting method for the status of data collectors

    It would be useful when a data collector has stopped randomly, having an alerting method would allow us to rectify this and get the collector working again.
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Functionality already exists

    SP Generate Dedupstats by filespace for datacenter nodes

    Scheduled dedupstats only run one process per node. This is fine for many node types, but in datacenters with 1000 nodes, it can result in a single process running for a week or two, while all of the other processes have completed.
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Functionality already exists

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