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Disable E-mail (and other) notifications temporarily

We are using a Notification alerting on CSM and it works well, however we would like to have a possibility of temporarily suppressing it when one does planned activity like increasing volume size (it requires breaking the mirroring, removing copy ...
10 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

REST API to support client certificates

For a more secure connection, we would like to request that you implement the option to use client certificates for authentication.
almost 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Future consideration

Allow global Filter/search across entire SI Instance

When I have multiple devices in my environment, I need a quick way to drill down to what device is of immediate concern. If I get CRC errors from a WWPN, I need to search my SI instance for which array is presenting that WWPN. If I need to grow a ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Scale Toolkit support for separated admin and daemon network

Due to security, some clients have different IPs for daemon and for admin network, in a Spectrum Scale Cluster, and current version of Toolkit does not support different networks.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

SPP: Extend Retention period for existing backup

SPP: Extend Retention period for existing backupWe need an option to change expiration date for already taken backup to desired value. For example to change it to expire in 1 year instead of 1 month with which it was taken.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Secure all of Copy Services Manager for z/OS via SAF

SAF Access Currently the Copy Services Manager product that we are using, that is installed and running under z/OS, is accessed and governed by a GUI via a web browser with the appropriate IP address and port number. To logon to the CSM GUI, we pr...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

SPP does not report "Missed" backups

SPP does not report "Missed" backups.If a backup is attempted and fails, this is reported in the job logs and can be reported on in the generate reports.However, if a job does not run on schedule (e.g. SPP is down, job has been paused for maintena...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

tivsm-ba deb package fails to restart service on upgrade

When working on verifying the fix for APAR IT35298 on case TS004574980 we noticed that the deb packages for the client doesn't properly restart the dsmcad service on upgrades. We were told that this wouldn't be fixed, and that the issue should be ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

Support for VMware vCloud Director

When does IBM expect that Spectrum Protect Plus have support for VMware vCloud Director.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add VM Backup Success Rate to GUI

The current "Success Rate" percentage shown in the GUI is misleading.It shows the success rate of jobs. Jobs include backup, restore, replication, inventory and maintenance jobs.If 1 job (with 5 VMs) fails and 1 job (with 500 VMs) succeeds, the su...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration