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ESS call home for disk failures should include the RG\disk name in the IBM case title

In ESS call home for disk failures, when a case is created the case title is very generic and reports an error number 'Error Code: DSK00001'. Problem The challenge is that when disks fail, it is difficult to relate a specific disk failure to an IB...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

vSnap Failover Functionality

Currently, vSnap servers do not have integrated failover functionality. This means if a vSnap is not available, and a backup runs pointing to this vSnap, backup will fail. Automatic failover should happen if a vSnap is not available. Backup then s...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Allow more than one NTP server in Spectrum Virtualize Products

Most products that require time synchronization allow more than one NTP server to be specified. Spectrum Virtualize products only allow one server and that only via the IP address. Here, IBM has to make improvements and allow more than one server....
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Functionality already exists

Data Protection for VMware vSphere GUI configuration mode checkbox should be UNCHECKED by default.

The Data Protection for VMware vSphere GUI configuration mode checkbox should remain unchecked as a default setting for normal use.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Planned for future release

IBM SPP: Allow VADP/VSNAP deployment with SSH keys instead of username/password

Hello, VADP and VSNAP Deployment require that you enter a OS username and password for ssh communication. Username and password authentication is not very secure therefore any sane/larger customer will only allow ssh-keys for authentication. Pleas...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Data collector incorporate in DS8K

Similar to CSM, Storage Insight Data collector can be built in the DS8K HMC by default for customer. This will allow the customer to easily consume the Storage Insight Service. This will increase Storage Insight usage and that will benefit the fut...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Adding SMB support on ppc64LE / SLES for SpectrumScale

We need SMB support on ppc64LE / SLES.SLES has a market share of 99% in HANA on Power.HANA will be the only database for SAP.To use SpectrumScale in HANA environments we need SLES Support for smb.
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Future consideration

SPP Container backup support unsupported storage class exclusion

We wish to have a better exclusion feature for currently unsupported storage classes.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Only Report Status on Relevant Paths from Storage Systems Panel

In our environment, we have IP to z/OS connectivity enabled. As such, we have ZOS:NATIVE connections and IP to z/OS connections to other LPARs. For the ZOS:NATIVE connections, it is not possible for the Standby server to connect via FICON to the s...
7 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Add Support of Snapdiff API v3

Dear developers NetApp provides a protocol or API called SnapDiff. Spectrum Protect currently supports the API in the Release v1. Now that v2 and v3 of SnapDiff are already available (as a REST API), NetApp has discontinued support for v1 in curre...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Planned for future release

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