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Requesting Storage Defender Development team to expedite development of support for Defender Sensors for Aix Os

In most of the engagements in select accounts in India , there is at least a 50 % prevalence of Aix hosts , I suspect the case to be similar for multiple accounts in ISA & APAC region. While currently we have sensors for Rhel 9 , Suse & Ub...
3 months ago in Storage Defender 6 Future consideration

add graphs to reports

when creating performance reports and chosing PDF or HTML as the preferred format, it would be very helpful to include a graph of the selected metrics as well. (much like in the upper half of the SI performance view.)
3 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Rename the Custom tag 1 (2 and 3)

Resources -> Block Storage Systems -> Select a Storage ->View Properties is showing the fields: Custom Tag 1 Custom Tag 2 Custom Tag 3 Resources -> Pools -> Select a Pool -> View Properties is also showing the fields named: Custo...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

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...
9 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Adding options to loading DSCLI(DS Command Line Interface)

Loading the DSCLI code from Windows/IBM i requires Java 8 or newer plus using the ftp protocol. When the company has removed the use of Oracle Java and replace with another version of Java for the company to use, Second, company has block the use ...
7 months ago in IBM DS8000 3 Future consideration

TDP SQL GUI more efficient for search restore point in allwaysOn cluster

Configuration: AlwaysOn DB configured on TDP for database SQL with 11 instances (Active/Inactive) with more than 70 SQL databases with MMC. Problem: When selectively restoring inactive data for a particular database, it takes a long time, up to 45...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Future consideration

Support larger tape ranges in the Selective Device Access Control tape range table

The SDAC tape range table supports 50 entries total. A range of A00000-A99999 covers 100K tape volumes. My client uses letters in the second position of the tape volser (A-Z). I have to enter a range such as AA0000-AA9999 (covers 10K tape volumes)...
12 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

IBM TS4300 Tape Automation

Could you please assist us with an issue we're experiencing with our IBM TS4300? When my team needs to load or eject tapes, the process has become very time-consuming. Is it possible to automate this process? We would like to select multiple tapes...
about 2 months ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Future consideration

Enable selective VMDK based restore for "Production Restore (Disk Replace)"

Starting with version 10.1.7 it is possible to restore only the VMDK's of a VM without restoring the configuration data of the VM.This restore mode is named "Production Restore (Disk Replace)". This restore mode does a restore of all VMDK's of a V...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

VADP Proxy selection should be more intelligent

During VMware backup VADP Proxies are selected by site and load, or you can assign a specific proxy (by name or site) to a VM that it should use for backup in the VM options.In larger environments we have defined multiple vcenters to a single gui,...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration