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In Fusion HCI console, under backups, there must be an option to delete one or more backups

It's useful, because of quick management of the backups, usable for anyone.
about 1 month ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Have Volume Group next scheduled snapshot be DST aware

When you have a daily snapshot policy setup for a volume group, the next scheduled snapshot is always 24 hours later. When daylight savings time is involved, this will lead to the snap shot being taken 1 hour later/earlier in the day (according to...
15 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Detailed overview in Fusion UI to display all resources actually captured by the backup or recipe

Suggestion for improvement:In order to support the targeted development of recipes that work correctly, a function for quick and complete content analysis of the individual created backups (and possibly also the restores) should be included in the...
about 1 month ago in Storage Fusion 0 Planned for future release

Policy Based Replication - Secondary Volumes Always Offline

My customer is planning to tech refresh their existing SAN Storage and IBM is one of the 4 vendors participated in the POC. With customer existing DR operations, the storage DR volumes are always at Online status, hence the volumes are always moun...
about 1 month ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

CSM Server restart & ESSNI restart confirmation in CSM

Following a CSM Server restart, or ESSNI restart through the hardware management console, there should be an indication/event in the logs that that happened. Currently, there is no way to verify within CSM, that a restart of either of these compon...
8 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Not under consideration

IBM Tape Tools should be properly supported and developed

The free IBM Tape Tools aren't sufficiently supported within IBM support structure. Some of the tools are to analyze or report on tape are generic and useful for any type tape hardware while others are specific to IBM TS7700, like GETHIST and CPYH...
16 days ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Under review

GCP Object Lock support

Backups immutability feature by using google cloud object locking. Add GCP to a large list of already compatible object storage sources: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-spectrum-protect-object-storage-support
17 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Submitted

Ability to configure PB-HA and PB-R between the same two storages.

Here in Brazil, we have some customers who have only two storages and they ask us (IBM) for the ability to configure PB-HA and PB-R between these two storages. Today, we only support PB-R or PB-HA between the same storages, to support PB-R and PB-...
4 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Future consideration

ISP4VE - Re-use the old view of the plugin

In the past it was possible to adjust the data mover with plugin function from the VCenter Plugin. With the newer version it is not possible anymore to adjust it easily Depending on the environment the flexible adjustment on this place is needed. ...

IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) should be differentiate between real HOST-Connections issues vs. a planned shut down from one or more HOST systems.

Starting with CSM 6.3.10 IBM has introduced his Multi Sysplex Support (feature 87578b). With this feature are several resilience topics addressed to make the tool less prone to incorrect operation. One decision that has been made, for example, is ...
21 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration