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    Implementation from the authenticated way to send EMails from CSM

    At the moment CSM is not ready to use an authenticated way to send Mails. CSM should implement this possibility at their GUI to use an User + password for their mail Notifications.
    over 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

    Option to enhance ANR3654W Inventory file expiration when not using replication

    When you are using the policies on the target replication server to manage replicated client-node data, you must run expiration processing every 24 hours to allow the target replication server reuse storage pool space that is occupied by expired r...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    Synchronize policy information to another SP server

    There is a Spectrum Protect environment with 2 Spectrum Protect servers. Server A is the primary server to which the SP clients connect to, which stores alll SP client data in first place, and on which all SP client node information, associations ...
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

    Include a section with fix number and description of fixes in the release notes

    One of my customers opened a support case for an issue with CSM, the Support team found out they hit a bug in CSM and suggested to upgrade the CSM to a newer version (6.3.6.0) that included the fix, but they were not able to find any information i...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Not under consideration

    TSM4VE Cleanup Abandoned Snapshots

    TSM4VE should track its own snapshots, and periodically clean these up if no active backups are using those snapshots. Presently, if a backup is aborted, or proxy node rebooted, or etc., the VMWare snapshots created by that backup are never cleane...
    almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

    Network resiliency enhancement - need mechanism for prioritizing control traffic over data traffic via QOS/PFC when RDMA is not enabled.

    In a heavy workload situations, some clients are removed from the cluster as peer nodes are not able to communicate as heart-beat/control traffic stuck behind data traffic. Also explore, a dedicated VLAN(s) option for Control and Data traffic.
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    GUI should indicate if TS7700 is in 'skip' mode

    We had a long VTS outage during which time errors were not being reported due to the VTS being in 'skip' mode. We would like some visible notification of the VTS being in 'skip' mode or health status screen that would show all the current componen...
    over 5 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Progression of manual backup/restore in DP for Exchange GUI (Task Details)

    We have had several customers complain that "Task Details" in DP for Exchange GUI are not updated until a task finishes.
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 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 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

    Provide connectivity from the CSM to the arrays when IP network is gone

    In a worst case, Have the ability to perform a restore is the IP Network is unavailable. Have the ability to 'hardwire' a server running CSM to connect and communicate with the array to perform backup and restore.
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

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