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Enhance physical Volume Pooling for virtual Volume Pools

as an additional Point for the Idea: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/TS77-I-209 it would be useful if we can decide which virtual volume Pool (Application Data) is written to which physical Volume. So we can get a chain from the z/OS Applciation Data ...
13 days ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Needs more information

Set Up virtual volumes Pools for different z/OS applications

We want to define different volume pools and address them via Storage Class, so that we can specify from the z/OS side which application (via Storage Class ACS routine) writes to which virtual volume pool (logical volume range). In this way, we ca...
13 days ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Needs more information

Change process for dual control function

the dual control function raise the security for important functios in TS77xx. To use this function you need 2 groups(or persons) for 'Maker' and 2 groups(or persons) for 'Checker'. The result of this workflow(design) is, that you need 4 Groups to...
2 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Needs more information

Add AIX support to Storage Defender

Storage Defender lacks AIX support. Both are IBM products and why one IBM Product doesn't support another IBM product used by many IBM customers?
9 months ago in Storage Defender 1 Needs more information

Restrict access management based on OS type or agent type like VM Snapshot backup/SQL DB/ Oracle DB/ View etc

We can restrict to our platform team user based on their platform CI's/ Objects/Servers/DB etc. We can more effectively manage the RABAC solution for more granular level with additional option for user access management. With this user able to man...
24 days ago in Storage Defender 1 Needs more information

dsmserv maintenance does not disable storage rules

Starting the SP server in maintenance mode is a helpful vehicle after software updates and problem determination phases. It disables all internal server processing and client sessions except of preventing storage rules being executed. Disabling st...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Needs more information

insert more than two media categories/types for logical volumes

Today there are only two media categories available for defining logical volumes in an IBM VTS - Media Type Cartidge System Tape and Enhanced Cartridge. But you can define the volumes as 400MB, 800MB, 1GB, 2GB, 4GB and 25GB in the library. Since w...
6 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Needs more information

Improve CSM Monitoring : create "customer" own list of message containing specific pattern to trigger email alert function

Ability to create custom list of " chosen message and filtering "sheduled task completed" only for session starting by pattern a specif pattern Company01 , Company02...,. We are using CSM in very converged / consolidated infra, our CSM handle many...
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Needs more information

Disallow to run a SGC recover when R1 devices are already in use (by another recover or by a practise H3)

In our configuration R1 devices for SafeGuardedCopy are the same as H3 devices for practice. When we flash I3 devices on H3 devices for practise and then we run a recover backup for SGC the task failed with a x0FAE error code.But one time the H3 d...
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 3 Needs more information

Automatic Performance reports of Fiber channel IO

it would be great to have a way of automating performance reports of a ds8k through storage insights. for example during an LCP Push/ pull be able to have an automated report which gets created and can be sent to an email address. we pull these ma...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Needs more information

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