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    Retention Sets and transitioning to new tape technology.

    Hello,There are customers who need to retain data for more than 10 years. However, a problem arises regarding technology lifecycles, as servers, disk arrays, and tape libraries are typically replaced every 5-10 years.Consequently, the customer fac...
    20 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Submitted

    ternary chips can be modified and used as quantum chip

    Ternary.txt ternary chips can be modified and used as quantum chip. we do not need to develop the quantum - super conductor 150kw sub zero temperatures. it is enough that we develop a proper ternary quantum chip. ternary chip has three states -1 0...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Submitted

    For security reasons, Storage Protect components should use file access rights 750 (DORA)

    Resulting from DORA, customer Finance Informatik needs to improve operational resilience. From Wikipedia: "The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), officially Regulation (EU) 2022/2554 is a European Union regulation. It requires financial en...
    5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Submitted

    IBM CDM should be able to work with more than one Network Card to perform backup and restore operations

    Customer has hosts and storage subsystems placed in distinct networks. We configured a second NIC in the CDM server but once this interface comes UP, all scheduled backup fails, the reason is that they can't find the target hosts, I wonder some ro...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    command line for the admin console gui for IBM Storage Copy Data Management software

    We would like to automate the backup of the Catalog Manager in the Backup Catalog . Currently we need to log into the gui and click backup daily. We might miss this over weekends and would be a big issue if we restore an old catalog. We have used ...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Under review

    Glacier like Object Storage teiring in Tape. With compatibility with S3 API/Policies

    A growing trend I ha e noticed in my domain is data ownership and residency. However, costs exponentially rise as data has grown due to a lack of understanding of what data is being stored (partially due o GDPR which protects against data being vi...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

    Add TDP for Oracle to Retention Sets type of data that can be included

    Currently, retention sets allow TDP for SQL, B/A Client, TDP for Mail, DP for VE (both VMware and Hyper-V) but only TDP for DB - Oracle is NOT supported and this is reallly needed for long term retention - there's a class of backups that is comple...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    Option to configure rsize parameter in Storage Copy Data Management for Spectrum Virtualize/Flashsystem

    Currently Storage Copy Data Management creates FlashCopy target volumes on Spectrum Virtualize/Flashsystem devices launching the following command: mkvdisk -mdiskgrp <pool_name> -iogrp <io_grp_name> -size <size> -rsize 0% -autoex...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

    Storage Sentinel support for the Scanning Engine to run on IBM Power hardware.

    For environments running SAP HANA on Power Linux, which is supported by Sentinel, there may not be x86_64 hardware in the environment for a Scanning Engine to be installed onto. The Scanning Engine needs to be installed where it can access the sto...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Future consideration

    This applies to Spectrum CDM: Treeview of copies

    Why don't you add a graphical view of the copies ? It is not easy manage the copies without having a global view of source disks and related copies. Something similar to the attached picture or by exploring a treeview
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

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