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Allow deletion of csmadmin local ID

The csmadmin local ID comes back after being deleted (post server reboot). It is also not possible to delete this ID. Please allow the customer to delete this ID permanently.
over 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Not under consideration

SCOM Management Pack for Spectrum Protect, Sectrum Protect Plus.

A management pack for the management of Spectrum Protect and Spectrum Protect Plus in System Center Operation Manager.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Temporary AWS security credentials for S3 access

Spectrum Protect Plus currently only supports the use of permanent AWS access keys to access S3. This request is for support for access to S3 buckets with temporary AWS credentials. Spectrum Protect Plus should be able to support the rotation of a...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add ability to alert on age of DS8000 FlashCopy

Storage Insights does not currently have any built in alerts related to FlashCopy, or ability to create custom alerts. It would be helpful for us to create alerts based on the presence of a FlashCopy set, the age of the set, etc.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 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...
about 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...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

Offload to multiple Spectrum Protect Repositories

Current problem is, only one Spectrum Protect Repository can be adressed using accesskey and secret key. But we need to offload to multiple servers, due to contingency reasons. We think restriction does not make any sense, and we were glad if this...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Display filespace occupancy per Storage Pool in API

Display the "FSLOGICALMB" for all used storage pools of the filespace at the API "oc/api/servers/{server}/clients/{client}/filespaces".to bee non disruptive to the existing data format do this by adding a dictionary containing the storage pool and...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

Make GUI less mouse-scrolling-mayham

When working in GUI (I long for a CLi) it is divided into different parts using scrollable text-boxes. No part of GUI seem to be resizable, which makes working in GUI hard. When choosing a SLA I need to scroll the SLA-policy-text-box and if I scro...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Enhance the monitoring and reporting the internal RAID card's degradation

5148-22L's internal RAID card's degradation caused severe performance impact. However, its degradation was not monitored by HW&SW. Therefore, the user could not found this HW problem.ESS should be enhanced as monitoring the card and reporting ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Planned for future release