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    Enable searching/filtering for VMware tags and folders during RG creation

    A lot of customers already use VMware tags and VMware folders to organize their VMware environment which could be used to leverage during grouping of Resources. For creating Recovery groups, it would be helpful to search/filter for those within ma...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 0 Future consideration

    More Verbose Update screen for Firmware Updates

    During the Flash System Update the status jumps from 2% to 50% with no updates in between or afterwards, a more verbose visuals would be great.
    11 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    TS7700 host alert notification when a virtual tape volser stuck during z/OS zVM host failure

    A production tape remained stuck in a virtual tape drive, preventing production jobs from reading it. When left unnoticed for an extended period (hours or days), this issue impacted the HSM recycle process, resulting in no tapes being released fro...
    10 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Pre-migration Queue Threshold Alert

    Description: This would be useful to quickly identify issues with the VTS that can happen should it stop offloading to physical tape for any reason. Currently there is no alert, and the first symptom of trouble will come from long running jobs tha...
    about 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Planned for future release

    Enable TS7700 for Open Systems bei Adding the S3 Protocol

    The TS700 has everything enterprise customers need. It has backend tape, it is a grid, it has all replication capabilities and so on. It could be the perfect system for multipetabyte data from open systems, e.g. tiering from data to tape out of co...
    over 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 3 Future consideration

    TS7700 (VTS) - Simplify Certificate Management - accept .pfx or .p12 certificate format

    As the VTS does not support to generate a certificate on the machine itself and only create a sign request. I need to order (from a CA) a certificate that holds the private and public key in a .p12 or .pfx format. However, to upload I have to manu...
    about 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Under review

    Develop or update API to show compression information in GEN10 for pools and devices

    This information will help to monitor the growth of the data in the DS8K. It's actually availlable in DSCLI but not in API.
    over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

    Need web client support in IBM Spectrum Protect V8.1.2 or later server.

    Web client is extensively used in our environment ( TSM 8.1.1). To fix bugs that are impacting user jobs, TSM will be upgraded to V8.1.3 in the near future.
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 9 Not under consideration

    change tape read/write throughput rates

    Testing of Tapeoperations (move data) and got a throughput of only 120 MB/s to 140 MB/s with LTO7 tapedrives - in a Situation where nothing else happened
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Enhance the "Storage system performance monitor status" error message by adding potential causes and recommendations

    Today, an error (critical) is raised for "Storage system performance monitor status" without explanations or details. It is difficult for the users to understand the cause, the impact and the possible resolution related to this error. Many other e...
    10 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

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