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    Import the data from tape and sequential volumes, written from other IBM Storage Protect servers

    Why is it useful? This feature will help with restoring/retrieving data from the tapes, which may have expired in database and also if the tapes are owned/written by other SP server. Who will benefit from it? This feature will help in DR tests, wh...
    3 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    make the ba-client scan a _single filesystem_ for new/changed/deleted files/dirs via parallel threads

    question: when will the ba-client be able to search through a _single filesystem_ for new/changed/deleted files/dirs via parallel threads? this feature is standard among most of ba-clients competitors and customers are asking for this frequently.
    2 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

    To get support for NVMeTCP on the iWARP adapters on the FS9500 platform

    We exploring IBM 9500 for NVMeTCP on the FS9500 platform where its been advised by IBM development team that flash system running on iWARP adapters not certified and compatible. 1) Would like to understand whether this is limitation of hardware or...
    2 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

    Ability to select restore options (regarding the subset of PVCs, etcd resources) even when the backup was created using a custom recipe.

    Only when restoring backups created with the default recipe (i.e., without explicitly specifying a custom recipe within the associated policy assignment) is it possible to choose before the restore whether to restore the missing etcd resources and...
    3 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Customer requesting support of TOTP/SAML

    So we will be moving to Ping, the date is still TBD. That said yes that will be of interest to us when we implement Ping.. But the gap on SSH access will still be a concern. As far as other products that do this. Cohesity has pretty extensive supp...
    4 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

    SPS: Enhance restore capability to enable restore to an e.g. empty system.

    As of today, SPS requires that the to-be-restored filesystem exists before the restore can be executed. There are situation a customer wants to restore data (Db2) to an empty system: The System crashed, needed to be reinstalled, therefore the (dat...
    3 days ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Submitted

    SPS: Add roll back capability if restore fails

    As of today, SPS deletes the File System (FS) and Volume Group (VG) as preparation for the restore. If the restore fails, then the OS (here AIX) is left without the FS.To continue, customer needs to manually recreate the VG and FS, most likely to ...
    3 days ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Submitted

    Automated ODD generation in CSM, along with periodic cleanup based on a retention policy to prevent storage overrun

    Background: I recently met with the Storage Infrastructure Head of a large Indian bank. During the discussion, the customer specifically asked whether DS8000 supports automatic ODD generation based on predefined thresholds or triggers at the time ...
    5 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

    Policy Based High Availability: send Warning Event Notification already if the first of two IP Quorum instances in a Partition gets unavailable.

    IBM recommends to configure at PBHA solutions for each HA Partition a second IP quorum as a backup for situations where theprimary quorum fails or requires maintenance. As of today the FlashSystem sends a Warning Event Notification as soon as the ...
    about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

    Safeguarded Snapshots in IBM Copy Services Manager for SV Volume Groups replicated via Policy‑Based High Availability

    Please add native support in IBM Copy Services Manager to create safeguarded snapshots for Storage Virtualize Volume Groups replicated via Policy‑Based High Availability. Thank you for considering this enhancement! Virgil Balan Storage Administrat...
    8 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

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