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LSS Display capability in Internal Resources page per Storage Array

It would be nice to have the ability to report on LSS on a DS8K. It would be nice if we could report on LSS and the Device Type, getting the counts per model type with an LSS device quantity Total - perhaps with a Capacity Total by model and summary.
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 5 Future consideration

Allow user access to remote copy relationships to be restricted by ownership groups

There is the concept of ownership groups in the Spectrum Virtualize code which allows the system administrator to restrict access to users to only those objects that are defined within that ownership group. There is a list of objects to which acce...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

Keyboard shourtcut in DSMADMC

Implementation of keyboard short-cuts for DSMADMC (SP administrative client console).
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Add SMTP protocol for event

For information security reasons, some companies are unable to connect out the systems to report issues and events. Most IBM Storage and Mainframe systems have an SMTP protocol for sending e-mail alerts but not in TS77700. Can you add this option ?
over 2 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Possibility to deploy/update Client Management Services (CMS) using Spectrum Protect Operation Center

Update of Client Management Services (CMS) using Spectrum Protect Operation Center is not possible.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

TS7700 copy/replication time reporting in the BVIR record

To day, it is required that the customer runs VEHAUDIT to get the copy time distribution report; the same report is attached. I have been approached by couple customers who would like to see the copy time statistics is written directly to the BVIR...
about 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Future consideration

Powershell interface to dsmc and dsmadmc

Powershell is becoming the scripting language of choice for windows. It is difficult to call existing dsmc and dsmadmc command line tools from powershell and reasonably process the output. Powershell has an object pipeline model and file output do...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

VM File Indexing not available while Configuring VM using NVMe Disk Controller in SPP

While Configuring virtual machine using NVMe Disk Controller from VMware side. VM Backup is successful to IBM Spectrum Protect Plus. When using File Restore feature in SPP. File indexing is not available and this is happening because OS's are not ...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

IBM CSM to Stop Keeping Trying to Authenticate a Logged in User if Authentication Fails Once

CSM appears to have a mechanism where periodically it will re-authenticate the logged in users. This becomes a problem if the user's credentials have changed since the last time they logged into CSM, CSM will keep trying to re-authenticate the ses...
about 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Is a defect

GPFS instead of ZFS

Instead of ZFS we'd appreciate use of GPFS/Spectrum Scale with Protocols. The IBM Product has all capabilities to ensure a stable and scale-out infrastructure which is supported in all current Kernel Levels.Using GPFS will not have the impact on t...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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