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    Support for EMC PowerMax storage systems

    Add support for Hitachi VSP G-Series storage systems.
    almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Future consideration

    IBM Storage Virtualize Plugin for vSphere features missing

    The VMware plugin for Flash Systems missing the following operations which are publish in :https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg248505.pdf - IBM FlashSystem and VMware Implementation and Best Practices Guide - Marking the hosts as flash I...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

    Allow multiple REST sessions per user

    We wrote some checks for an external event management system that query several parameters and events from the storage arrays through REST API. As we have multiple checks and a clustered event management infrastructure we sometimes have 2 or more ...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Functionality already exists

    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 4 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Planned for future release

    Run all binaries in the installation folder to prevent security software blocking

    Security software like Bit9 block Insights binaries. Insights binaries are blocked even after whitelisted by security admins because Insights files are copied to a different folder than the installation folder while running. Binaries we have seen ...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 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 4 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    cache for directory container pools

    it will be great to have a cache for directory container pool in order to temporary store the data received and then migrate them to directory container. using faster disks like ssd as a temp pool will significant improve backup and replication sp...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    REST API access to TS4500 drive display codes

    REST API for TS4500 drive list to include tape drive display codes for enterprise drives. This could be limited to only be shown when the specific /v1/drives/<sn> URL endpoint is used, rather than listing them for all drives (/v1/drives) - t...
    almost 6 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

    More flexible VMTAG processing

    Version 7.1.6 gave us the possibility to use VMware TAGs to help control the exclusion of a VM and the Spectrum Protect (TSM) management class a VM should use. Even if this is a great improvement, I think that it could easily be extended to give u...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

    Tape optimization recall termination improvement

    The product has several recall types.Tape optimization recall(TOR) is one of them.Now you terminate a TOR, it waits to complete the current recall. It is important to implement a more granular TOR termination technique.
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Not under consideration

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