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Call home via non-config node during SVC cluster crash

Closing complaint AB6210 for Geodis SVC cluster crash, it has been identified that during the crash of the whole SVC cluster, no call home have been sent.
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Change password expiration for only one userid

Hello, We would like to know if it is possible to create a command to change the password expiration for only one userid, not for all the userid on the ds8k. today when we use the chpass command the password is changed for al the user id from the ...
12 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Support GC-GC cascaded start option in 3 site MT sessions

When using CSM for migration scenarios in 3 site topologies, a typical approach is to migrate via PPRC Failover or HyperSwap from old MGM cascade to a new GC-GC cascade. Today, the new GC-GC cascade requires to use temporary 2 site MM sessions bei...
12 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

TSM operation center reporting issue with DB size of TSM instances in GPFS cluster

TSM DB size was wrongly reported in operations center for instances configured in same GPFS cluster. all instances are reporting GPFS clustered file system size Tivoli Storage Manager Operations Center 7.1.4
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Not under consideration

Multiple transfer streams between pools for data from a single node

We use a TSM system where the nodes/clients push data first to disk, then the TSM server migrate the data from disk to tape.We have several use cases where nodes periodically push data faster than the ~350MB/s that our tape drives (TS1150) can han...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Multitenancy, support for multiple AD/ldap

SPP need support for Multitenancy and ability to add multiple AD/ldap (Under System->LDAP/SMTP) so MSPs can protect multiple customers with one SPP solution and let customer decide which users/groups should have access to what in SPP.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Automated Restore for Spectrum Protect family of products

Spectrum Protect is lacking any functionality which can automatically verify backup copies, whether they have been created using the BA client, TDP agents or Spectrum Protect Plus. Since Cristie pulled support for SP4VE from their Recovery Simulat...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Include frame and drive S/Ns in system summary csv download

There is no single place to get the full list of S/Ns of frames AND drives for an installed library. The system summary csv file contains a lot of useful information including frames and drives, but not their S/Ns. This would be very helpful in ME...
4 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

Support for AWS Private Link and VPC

Allows for us to follow our personal best practices with sending the data over a VPN to our AWS tenant. We have a URL that we would like to put in for the communication which will resolve to our private IP. It looks maybe like you used to be able ...
over 1 year ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 3 Planned for future release

Enhancement for Anomaly Detection

I like the idea of Anomaly Detection in Spectrum Protect for the Server, starting in 8.1.5, to detect a possible crypto trojan. But in the our Use Cases it will become clear, that this is not much helpfull.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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