IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Spectrum Protect Snapshot should recognize AIX LVM mirror setup after restore

    The customer operates multiple IBM Db2 databases on the AIX platform using LVM mirrored volumes.For performance reasons, specific LV to hdisk mappings are configured inside of the volume groups.Snapshot backups are created by IBM Spectrum Protect ...
    over 4 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    Spectrum CDM Deployment on MS Hyper-V Virtualization

    We're working with LULU for their SAP HANA requirement and proposing Spectrum CDM to fulfill their App/DB consistent snapshots for the mentioned retention period here Every 2 hours snapshot for Prod Infra with 7 days retention (12x7= 82 flashcopie...
    about 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 4 Future consideration

    Improve zOS host IP connection loss detection and failover behavior

    There have been incidents in the field showing the current design of CSM z/OS host IP connection loss detection and failover to redundant active host connection is significantly delayed to 15-20 minutes. This may happen especially when the connect...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

    z/OS HyperSwap and Concurrent Copy

    After a HyperSwap, the command "Start H2->H1" (Start H1->H2 respectively) will fail if there a active Concurrent Copy Sessions on secondaries (former primaries). CSM will show error IWNR2108E RC 0F13. We know IBM recommends to eliminate any ...
    over 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

    Related to SafeGuarded Copy on the DS8000. SGC backup copies CANNOT be deleted. Today, a person with adminstrator rights can still log on and delete off valid SGC backup copies. Customers have been asking for this capability to be removed.

    This feature is required to ensure that SGC is totally immutable.
    over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Functionality already exists

    Retain CSM level after HMC Kernel update

    When CSM is upgraded outside of a Remote Code Load (RCL) using the stand alone DSCLI and an RCL occurs afterwards where the HMC kernel is updated, CSM is back-leveled to the version that is included in the microcode bundle. This forces the User/Ad...
    about 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 4 Not under consideration

    Support TSM Storage Agent to be used in virtual machines for "Serverfree" backup to shared disk

    IBM GPFS is a supported file system for performing "server free" backups to shared disks (similar to LANfree backups, which are going from a TSM client system with TSM for SAN directly to a tape). At the moment, this method (Server free backup to ...
    almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 2 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Protect Snapshot - Support with HyperSwap Volumes

    Hi Team I have a customer who is looking for support for FlashCopy Manager (Spectrum Protect Snapshot) with HyperSwap volumes. From the link below I see that it is not currently supported:http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21455924 T...
    almost 8 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

    CSM Co-existance with lower-level or different level CSM.

    2. The ability for CSM software to co-exist with a lower-level or different-level CSM software in a CSM configuration where they are sharing one or the same CSM database.
    over 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

    Secure all of Copy Services Manager for z/OS via SAF

    SAF Access Currently the Copy Services Manager product that we are using, that is installed and running under z/OS, is accessed and governed by a GUI via a web browser with the appropriate IP address and port number. To logon to the CSM GUI, we pr...
    almost 8 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

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