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Exclude VMs from Sources Protected number.

If I tag a VM with something like ‘no_backup' or just don't include it in an SLA it is still counted in the total number of VMs protected. There are some VMs (desktops, Citrix, Web, etc) where you may have a single configuration server and then ma...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Make policy creation use case easier

When creating a policy there are 3 very common stumbling blocks that force them to abandon the definition and start over from step 1. These problems are, roughly in order of occurrence: ***** A. User forgot to define tag for the policy. Currently,...
over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Planned for future release

Secondary control for Adminstraive schedule jobs

This is a basic request. When a administrator leaves the company or change of project, per process the respective admin ID should be deleted from Spectrum Protect ( remove admin ). However the "remove admin" command just process the deletion reque...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

TS4500 LDAP auth has a flaw

User authentication up against LDAP does not work in our environment. The reason for that is that we have brackets in our AD users Display Name. That issue was discovered in IBM case TS005232687It is not an option to delete the brackets in our AD ...
over 3 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

Uptime command

a "uptime" command that shows system uptime - perhaps lssystemuptime, if possible with several options to show uptime for nodes / drives / ports and other components
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

Client Deploy should be able to update TDP clients, or at least skip clients which should not be upgraded w/o TDP updates.

The current client deploy is not TDP aware. It is up to us to track which of the 8000 clients belong on the same host, and which ones are TDP. In some cases, seeing the policy domain and node name is enough to figure it out, but not always. Some T...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Not under consideration

Client Deploy should not break 100% if one single server fails package prepare. Failure causes should show up in the GUI. Documentation should show troubleshooting details.

If you have multiple spectrum protect servers which are replicating, and then you enable client deploy,then if any one of the deploy targets has an error, such as a replica server that was offline,and then if you have daily replication which pushe...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

expose pagepool statistics

There seems to be no supported way, and in fact no way at all that I can find, to determine how effective the pagepool cache is. The official ways to determine an optimum pagepool size are 1) "try it and find out", and 2) "pay one of our consultan...
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

DS8K Storage connection to CSM via HMC mode - static password is Audit exposure

Currently to add a DS8K using HMC connection in CSM, we use a separate ID (admin level) created for this which has static password. We cannot use direct connection. This is an audit risk where we cannot have static passwords. Can an alternate proc...
about 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

Resources > Hosts view does not show the Health Summary status table

The Hosts view (Resources > Hosts) does not show the Health Summary status table at the top of the page, next to the device image. In comparison, reviewing all the other Resource views, they all have the Health Summary status table: - Resources...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

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