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Schedule Force Base Resources (full backup)

Possibilities to Schedule full backups in a SLA. Like, over a month VM makes a full backup randomly every night spread over the time you set.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

BVIR Audit volumes should ignore volume copies 'in flight'

We utilize the BVIR 'COPY AUDIT' function to identify volumes that are missing copies in some or all of the clusters in a grid. As an example of this use we run a COPY AUDIT with the EXCLUDE parameter to specify a cluster that is being removed fro...
over 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 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

CEC status reporting enhancement

During a current issue with a DS8000 CEC failure (on a DS8880 device), the status of the CEC reported to either CSM or storage insights was that the CEC was active. This is apparently the result of the status coming back as ok simply because the e...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Session warning status in the event of DS8k CEC failure

When a DS8k experiences a CEC failure, CSM reports errors on LCUs that are associated with that CEC and changes the session status to Severe (giving the impression to the customer that there is a mirroring problem or scenario that would cause issu...
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Not under 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

E-mail notification when ticket is successfully created, and log successfully uploaded

SI allow to create, update ticket and upload logsUser should receive an e-mail notification when one of these actions is successful or fail
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

DS8000 API - Enhanced Event filter

The current event endpoint does not provide a way to filter out inactive errors and warnings. Neither does the response indicate whether the event is active/inactive. There is no way to poll for currently relevant issues. This filter is available ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Customer-managed encryption keys with KJM support in GCP Buckets

Why is it useful? Enabling CMEK support with KMS for GCP buckets provides Enhanced Security, Compliance Requirements, Key Rotation and Management, Data Sovereignty Who would benefit? Banking Customers, Customers with strict encryption requirements...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Is Spectrum Control available for a cluster installation

We need for Spectrum Control 5.4.6 cluster support for Windows 2019 for an cluster failover event. Currently we are using 2 SC Instances on Windows 2012 Its planned to do a server refresh and we want to know, if SC could be installed in a clustere...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

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