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Direct SPP Primary Backups to Cloud Storage.

Direct Primary backups to Cloud Storage. without the need to send it first to vSnap and then create an additional copy to Cloud Storage
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect - update LASTACC_TIME when a target node is replicated to

Hi, In Spectrum Protect, when a node in a replicated pair is replicated to (when it is the target) the LASTACC_TIME does not update. We often use the LASTACC_TIME to determine if a node is still in use, if the LASTACC_TIME is over X days then we d...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Logfiles that would include all execution outputs

Currently the TDPSQLC.exe has a LOGFILE option that only outputs the summary of its execution. Today, if I wish to see the summary and the execution of each database backup I need to provide both the LOGFILE and a redirected log path such that I c...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

Flashsystem 7200 expansion enclosure NVME

The expansion enclosures of the flashsystem 7200 do not support NVME. All government agency procurement processes are requesting and we are taking a beating from Dell, Purestorage and Huawey. We need to fix this or we will no longer sell to govern...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Allow Multiple MGM sessions per LSS

Please allow us to split LSS device ranges into multiple MGM sessions. Devices on a LSS could still be contiguous per session, but would like to split those between sessions.
over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

Multiple Flashcopies per volume set.

Allow multiple Flashcopies to be taken that aren't directly tied to a set of volumes at Flashcopy point and time. Take the Flashcopy and use space from the storage pool, allow for multiple copies to exist for each replication session.
over 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Flashcopy - restart or reset Flashcopy to original date/time

Flashcopy currently is a one and done function. It would be useful to have the ability to start over or reset a Flashcopy to it's original point and time. For example take a flash copy on Day 1 at noon, run your DR exercise, application test, vend...
over 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Alerting creation with OR condition

Currently multi conditional condition rule are using AND condition, in some situation ( for example where the threshold is the same) it would be efficient to create one rule with a OR condition
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

Allow creation of multi condition rules with selection of different (connected) devices

Currently when we create an alert all the criteria available in the Alert Definition are related to the specific selected device, As now we have SAN Switch supported by SI ( but this is valid as well for Server) , this would be very beneficial to ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

granular user roles for CSM

We need a possibility to create custom roles in CSM.Within these roles we would like to define what tasks are available for the users.For instant a user who can resync the HA relationship after an IPL. Or a user who can trigger a hyperswap and Sta...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration