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For V7000 and SVC create an automated report for the status of Global Mirror sessions

Create a global mirroring report providing the status of V7000 and SVC Global mirroring that can be automatically run daily and sent via email to end users. Should contain the following (at a minimum)CG_Name Active Connnected CurrentDate/Time Last...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

TSM for VE: Eliminate ANS1711W warning message or change to informational.

Whenever the default backup mode is selected for a VMware VM backup (incremental forever, incremental) and a full backup has not been performed, a warning message is issued "ANS1711W Incremental backup selected for 'MLTUSAPV27', but a Full backup ...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

SI needs to include the SRC for any DS8k event it receives

SI needs to include the SRC for any DS8k event it receives.
about 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Fiserv has standardized on PingID V1.36 as the MFA software of choice for their enterprize platforms and they would like to have IBM certify PingID with FlashSystem.

Fiserv has standardized on PingID V1.36 as the MFA software of choice for their enterprize platforms and they would like to have IBM certify PingID with FlashSystem Spectrum Virtualize 8.5.4
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

Add option to SPP to disable automatic connection to IBM update center.

There's a long timeout when using the Administrative Console before it is possible to click on "Updates and Hotfix Management" when there's no connection to IBM update center. After this long timeout when it is possible to click and go to the "Upd...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Allow prioritisation of policies

Allow prioritization of the execution of policies based on SLA. Each SLA will have a priority number associated with it (0=no priority/undefined, 1=highest...99=lowest). When defined the policy number would would mean that when SLAs are running co...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Modification of smb.conf to prevent vulnerability

The customer has to set 'server signing=mandatory' in smb.conf to prevent vulnerability.https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/887429http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731957.aspxhttp://www.nessus.org/u?74b80723http://www.samba.org/samba...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Add Optional Timeout Value for AoS Enablement

The TSSC home screen has a button that allows a user to Start or Stop AoS. This functionality could benefit from allowing an optional timeout value that would specify the maximum amount of time AoS can remain enabled. This is useful because allowi...
over 1 year ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Functionality already exists

Spectrum CDM Support for CSV with SQL

Request if for support SQL Servers configured with Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV). With Copy Data Management
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

No Copy option on Metro Mirror w/P session

In DS8K environments using ESE volumes we would like to have the No Copy option for Metro Mirror with practice sessions as already available on GM w/P session type.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

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