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DB2 | Consistent Copy | CDM | Safeguarded Copy

DB2 is an IBM database that is critical to many buisnesses - recoveryability from an immutable copy following a cyber threat is key to a business surviving. IBM currently does not support DB2 in it's own cyber vault story.
over 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 3 Not under consideration

TSM4VE separate installation from configuration

During installation of TSM4VE the installer requires information about the vCenter and vCeneter user, including a password. This is not always needed (when not registering a plug-in or extension) and prevents a generic installation that can later ...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Enable dsmreconcile to run on arbitrary HSM nodes

We are currently developing a large archive solution based on IBM Spectrum Scale and IBM Spectrum Protect for Space Management. In the particular setup we make heavy use of the Multiserver functionality of ISP for Space Management for scalability ...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Future consideration

Global Mirror has too many tuneables and most real-world deployments require tuning

Product: Virtualize Products Description: GM and MM tuneables should be reduced in number and complexity. For example: The product could calculate the bandwidth requirements for a GM relationship based on the IO load on a system and either a user-...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Migrateexts - Spectrum Virtualize documents mistake

Due to description of command migrateexts in documentation there is no mention that in case of extant migration to unmanaged disks this operation lead to fail down system with all nodes restarting to T2 recovery. This issue was solved only at 8.3....
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Is a defect

SVC/Spectrum Control iSCSI monitoring

Client wishes to have the ability to monitor performance of their iSCSI connections on SVC using Spectrum Control as they do today on their FC connections. They feel that the underlying technology is there, but do not understand why they cannot ha...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 5 Planned for future release

SIP & SC: allow wildcards in the exclude list for storage reclamation

Storage Insights for Spectrum Control environment: "Reclaim storage" is useful, but customers need more handle on the exclude list. Now they can exclude volumes from the reclaim storage list, but customer wants to exclude certain partial volume na...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

CSM LDAP authentication with native RACF/SDBM

CSM is not able to authenticate with IBM Directory Server for z/OS configured with SDBM backend.With SDBM backend a IBM Directory Server is communication with RACF directly. No own database is requered.The native authentication with RACF/SDBM shou...
about 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Problem with the limit of 256 sessions in one consistency group

My customer PSA manages the replications between his DS8886 with CSM.For production reasons, he defined one and only one a consistency group with a lot of sessions.In the documents it is mentioned that there is a limit to 256 sessions in one consi...
almost 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 3 Not under consideration

Multipile tags created via single REST API request

Currently, tags must be created one by one using a POST request to spectrum discover. Attempting to send a list of tags in JSON like: [ { "tag" : "test1" , "type" : "Characteristics" , "value" : "[ \" True \" , \" False \" ]" } , { "tag" : "test2"...
over 2 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Future consideration