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STA path need to update after drive replacement

As an example of TS3200 LTO6 drives which we have in our infra whenever we found any drive issue and after replacement of this drive we are getting new serial number and same we are updating on tsm server with below command upd dr libraryname driv...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 0 Functionality already exists

install mounting brackets for PDU's in Factory for all drive and library frames

The IBM TS4500 (3584) ships mounting bracket PN 45E6651 and Pn 45E6652 ONLY if PDU feature code 1951 is ordered. It is impossible to get these brackets in the field. This is also the perfect place for a customer to install a bulk fiber termination...
almost 7 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 3 Not under consideration

Single Sign On with OKTA

intergrate with OKTA or other single sign on technology
almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Not under consideration

SVC Role based authentication

Current users in SVC generally have root level access to all pools and LUNs. Would like to add additional roles such as monitor-level and roles restricted to certain disk pools.
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

FlashSystem Refresh without host-side intervention

refresh an FS device to a new FS without requiring any server commands/intervention. This would supply a process to handle an FS device refresh where 100% of the activity is done at the Storage level only, preserving all of the following configura...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

IBM Storage plug-in for VMware needs the ability to assign cache io group

When using the IBM Storage plugin for VMware to create RDM or when using the IBM VASA to create vVols we need to ability to assign the cache io group. when we create a new vdisk on storage pool io group1 we want the cache io group1 assign and not ...
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect upgrade - pre-requiste failures

Can the pre-req checking during the install/upgrade actually check EVEYTHING before starting the install process?
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

TDP for SQL 2012 in Windows 2016

We have 2 Windows Server 2016 with both SQL 2012 and SQL 2016 instances.We need a TDP client version compatible with these three components, so we can backup all Databases in both SQL versions.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

CSM Console Messages Need to Show Correct Pair Direction

CSM log messages always show for example "Starting all pairs in role pair H1-H2" even if the start command was issued for H2-H1 instead. This can be very confusing and misleading when trying to check back and see what commands were issued and what...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

SVCDTA DB2 cancel restore

When restore of DB2 is executed, there is no possibility to cancel restore and try with another one, until restore is completed in background.We use NOCOPY option for backup. FMM19183E IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot adapter for the SAN Volume Contr...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Future consideration