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All GM consistent groups freeze status

Its better add the feature like alert which can be scheduled for data exposure at consistent group (session) level. Normally we can see freeze time when we run "lsrcconsistgrp" at SVC CLI.
19 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Needs more information

Clean cache with migration when one copy is online

Customer store their data into two libraries, when one library is offline or failure, they can't clean storage scale cache with archive migration and have to wait for IBM repairing. While customer only have a little cache storage space, they have ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Needs more information

Developing a SW Storage Enabler for Windows Failover Clustering module

I believe that part of the laboratory that develops the "Storage Virtualize" code is made up of people who dealt with XiV, at least that's what Stefano Mensa (IBM) told me. For the XiV platform IBM had developed a SW Storage Enabler for Windows Fa...
about 2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Needs more information

Restrict access management based on OS type or agent type like VM Snapshot backup/SQL DB/ Oracle DB/ View etc

We can restrict to our platform team user based on their platform CI's/ Objects/Servers/DB etc. We can more effectively manage the RABAC solution for more granular level with additional option for user access management. With this user able to man...
5 months ago in Storage Defender 1 Needs more information

Intergrated Message Console

Being able to see message that emulate the z/OS console. The features is available on the z/Enterprise HMCs, and the DS8K.
8 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Needs more information

Add GRID REQUEST Licenced volser Information to the LI REQ command

Add GRID REQUEST API output to the LI REQ,libname,GRID,REQUEST command so that we can fetch the licences volsers information from z/OS HOST itself.
about 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Needs more information

Add support for Google Cloud Storage buckets defined with Customer Managed Encryption keys

Support for Google Cloud Storage (GCS) as a cloud container pool is currently restricted to using Google Managed Keys (GMK) for encryption on the buckets on the Google side. The use of Customer Managed Keys (CMS) is a common mandatory requirement ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Needs more information

Better Information for Storage Rule

If we run any Storage rule like Replication or Tiering of data between pools and we see it failed of some reasons. A natural way to investigate a issue is to run the same command manually using wait=yes and in that way get more information, but ve...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Needs more information

allow versioning/history for objects of S3 clients

Allow versioning/history for objects of S3 clients. It would allow automatic expiration of older versions. This would help implementing smooth S3 backup solutions for many modern "cloud" databases and similar tools, like Postgres, MongoDB, Hashico...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Needs more information

Communicate AWS S3 by using Private Endpoint VPC instead of public internet from ISP.

Hi Team, Communicate AWS S3 by using Private Endpoint VPC instead of public internet from ISP. Security concern the AWS services to access via VPC only. Can you please update is IBM working development?. If yes, which version VPC option is available?
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Needs more information

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