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    DS8900 SYSLOG does not log severity

    Even though events can be sent to syslog, it is useless because it does not include the severity (information, warning, error), which makes it very hard/impossible to automate.
    about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

    REST API for TS7700

    We would like to have an option to check the configuration of a TS7700 with an automated script. What pools, SMS constructs, how many volsers, etc. are configured.We have good experiences in REST API with DS8000 and would like to have a REST API i...
    about 6 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Planned for future release

    Need support of Power 8/9 Compression HW chip on AIX Client for TSM Client

    Hellowe have implemented a new Backup LAN with CISCO ACI Network 40 GBit and made backup over this seperate lan to tsm serverWe need to do a compression on the TSM Client side because the TSM Servers has currently not the capabilities to store unc...
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

    FlashSystem intelligent QoS

    Although FlashSystem / Spectrum Virtualize have the capability of do throttling of IOPS and MBps to a specific LUN or Pool, I have more than one customer that would like to have the capability of specify SLO, for example, implement QoS with differ...
    about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Not under consideration

    Email notifications for jobs

    It should be possible to be notified by email when a job is completed whether it's successful or failing.
    9 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    ALL volume view

    As a spectrum control user there's the option to view ALL volumes without drilling to individual storage systems, This would be a very useful addition so Storage insights
    8 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Enable Discover to scan for Data Classes such as Last Name, First Name, Date of Birth, GPS Coordinates, Latitude and Longitude

    The Discover product when used for scanning an unstructured source (document) is able to use the Regex based data classes in Cloud Pak for Data/ Watson Knowledge Catalog. However, Discover product is not able to leverage non-regex based data class...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

    Enable Discover to complete full scan of Unstructured source (document) and collect metrics such as gross count and net count

    The Discover product when used for scanning an unstructured source (document) stops scanning the document after detecting the first instance of the data class such as SSN or Phone number. At this time, the results from using the Discover product o...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

    Provide support on DS8910F for DADSM UNMAP function in Copy Services relationships to allow use of Erase on Scratch on z/OS without unacceptable overhead

    Our DASD environment is all-flash DS8910F, mirrored across a distance of approx 25km. In order to satisfy audit requirements, we recently enabled Erase On Scratch via RACF (SETROPS ERASE (ALL)). Unfortunately this created an unacceptable overhead ...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

    DB2 on zLinux backup & restore

    Request for Spectrum Protect Plus to backup and restore DB2 databases running under zLinux
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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