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    Protect Syslog Server panel with Dual Control

    What happen when a hacker will change IP for RSYSLOG server. Logs are no longer transfered to syslog server and nobody is able to no longer see what happens at the Library. Please protect Syslog Server Panel with Dual Control
    about 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Aredent Health - Dell Customer - Optimize Masking View Creation by Resolving HostGroups During Restore

    During restore, CDM needs to map LUNs to the hosts. If there are three separate hosts, CDM will create a masking view for each, which means: 2 Storage Groups × 3 Hosts = 6 masking views. But If their hosts are under a parent HostGroup, CDM will re...
    2 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    Please continue supporting the TS2900 in IBM Storage Archive v2.4.8 and later.

    Supported tape libraries - IBM Documentation https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-archive-le/2.4.8?topic=planning-supported-tape-libraries IBM Storage Archive LE supports the following IBM® tape libraries: IBM Diamondback Tape Library (IBM LTO 9 an...
    2 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Under review

    HTTPS support for Internal Proxy Server (not only HTTP).

    Because customers do not support HTTP protocol any more.
    4 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Email Title better accurate

    When you receive an EMAIL from CSM notification, on the title you only have the message number. It is better if you can add to the title some information more explaindatory like the CSM source identification + Timestamp + user_variable or else. If...
    4 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Protocols - S3: optional directory path for S3 CreateBucket

    We would like to see the flag (--filesystemPath) from the mms3 command on the protocol nodes implemented in the actual API. We have teams that utilize the s3 api that we would like to be able to have them specify the path themselves instead of hav...
    11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Provide last login time / date via DSCLI lookup

    This is a requirement for audit purposes to be able to provide a list of users with last login date via a feed from the DSCLI. Currently you can get this information via the GUI but we can't get it via the DSCLI commands which is a requirement in ...
    about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    Enhanced CSM Notification with priority and persistence functionality

    Adding the ability to make an alert persistent by selection would allow for some level of prioritization for critical type alerts versus non critical or informational type alerts. Currently the alerts are one shot. The alerts are not redriven at a...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    CES support on SLES 12 SP3 Little Endian

    Recompile the CES packages to support SLES 12 SP3 on Power 8 and newer processors. There is already support in place for RHEL, but some customers are using SLES as their primary OS primarily due to SAP Hana installations and there is no support fo...
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Add an expiration date when using DECOMMISSION VM or DECOMMISSION NODE

    Hello! Having the possibility to enter a date (not mandatory) when decomissioning a vm or node will be very helpful. Most of my users told me to decommission a VM, but asking to keep its backup for a longer period than the associated management cl...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

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