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    Replication Job shows as "Error" if no data is there to process

    When using the replication of vSnap backup storage data and no "new" backup data is available in the source vSnap, SPP identifies the replication job as "Error" which is not true.In fact, just no new data is available in the source vSnap server. S...
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    Spectrum Protect prevent massive deletion from client side

    In today's world, more than ever we are tracking any kind of destructive operation. Command approval feature recently added prevent the SP admin to do massive data deletion from server side but we are still lacking the same protection mechanism if...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

    Please add error in event log when offsite reclaim (at copy export operation) is being stopped in case of a logical volume residing on an inaccessible physical primary volume

    We are doing copy export operation for safeguarded tape on a copy export only dedicated cluster. We had two times the problem, that a physical primary volume was inaccessible, which contained logical volumes that were needed for offsite reclaim op...
    about 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Under review

    NFS V4.1 Support

    Need support for NVS V4.1
    over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    Incorporate CSR Generation Functionality into IBM TS7700 REST API

    The IBM TS7700 Virtualization Engine, currently doesn't have the capability of generating CSR. The need for streamlined certificate management has become increasingly critical. Currently, generating a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) for the TS77...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Future consideration

    Extend CSM RESTful API for zos certificate import to work with multiple CSM z/OS connections for different consistency groups

    The current REST API to update a zos certificate into CSM does not allow filtering of z/OS connections if CSM has multiple z/OS connections to different consistency groups. The Swagger doc for this API does not have any parameter input or filter t...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 4 Not under consideration

    Ability to rename a snapshot (local or HA)

    Use case: currently snapshots are created with automatically generated names that are very random, with a string of numbers that are meaningless to the customer. Cu will sometimes take individual snapshots via the GUI, as a backup before a major a...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Planned for future release

    Flashsystem Volume Group metric replicated blocks should be displayed in MiB/s

    The replicated blocks metric under Flashsystem volume groups represents the data rate the data is being replicated to the remote system. All other metrics in SI represent data rate as MiB/s and this should be the same for volume groups.
    5 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

    Easier hotfix awareness

    At the moment, to be notified about a hotfix for IBM Storage Fusion, you either need to subscribe to the correct fusion notification subscription (there's at least 10 options) or have an issue a log a ticket to IBM support. Can a feature be built ...
    8 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Ability to obtain environmental information

    Many customers want to know in live environmental information such as total power usage (in watts) and inlet temperature (in degrees Celsius) on their TS7700 units. This information is available on DS8K storage arrays via GUI or CLI commands but i...
    about 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

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