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Spectrum Protect (Server)

Storage Scale integration with Storage Insights

To have fully overview on what is goning on on the ESS/SCALE cluster in a daily operation: And hopfully lead to a single pane of glass for day to day operations File Activity Tracking File Age Distribution File Count and Size Breakdown Snapshots O...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights Not under consideration

Support for concurrent uCode update on DS8000 FCP-attached SCSI disks for 21CS VSEn customers

Currently, based on very old experiences with IBM z/VSE and DS8000 uCode upgrades, on the Customer "Must-Read" Information for DS8000 Code Updates https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6585326 for example IBM DS8900F Microcode Customer Informatio...
4 months ago in IBM DS8000 Not under consideration

Extend CSM RESTful API for zos certificate import to work with multiple CSM z/OS connections for different consistency groups

The current REST API to update a zos certificate into CSM does not allow filtering of z/OS connections if CSM has multiple z/OS connections to different consistency groups. The Swagger doc for this API does not have any parameter input or filter t...
7 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Not under consideration

Add vdisk home tier option for provisioning policies.

Depending on the type of mdisk tiers in an easy tier enabled pool, newly created vdisks may have their extents placed on a non-preferred tier according to customer preference. For example, in a pool with tier0_flash and tier_nearline, new vdisk ca...
about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Not under consideration

Introduce effective quality management

During the last year, we saw many new ISS code levels, most of them with critical errors that could lead to data corruption or data loss. Fortunately, many costumers were spared from data corruption, but they had to update Scale nearly monthly to ...
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Not under consideration

Need web client support in IBM Spectrum Protect V8.1.2 or later server.

Web client is extensively used in our environment ( TSM 8.1.1). To fix bugs that are impacting user jobs, TSM will be upgraded to V8.1.3 in the near future.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) Not under consideration

Alert for AC Power missing on Fs9500

Fs9500 is considered Enterprise Storage. When AC power is missing, IBM service notification is NOT opened. Other Enterprise Storage like A9K and Ds8K are reporting this event. Moreover, even if Fs9500 is equipped with 4 different PSU, since AC pow...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Not under consideration

Avoiding full volume background copy after restoring of one FlashCopy relation in DS8K multiple incremental FlashCopy env.

The environment we request this enhancement is in DS8K multiple incremental FlashCopy with cascading FC support. In this environment, The customer will have two incremental FC relationships from one source A as Step1 bellow. Actually they will tak...
over 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 Not under consideration

Add a dedicated time frame for media verification function

We would like to define a dedicated time frame in the media verification function so that this verification function is not active during daily backups. This will allow you to unassign the tape drives to this verification function and assign them ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library Not under consideration

Request for a tape drive down function in the Storage Archive EE

Request for a tape drive down function in the Storage Archive EE to prevent malfunction at the tape drive level when a drive failure is detected.
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Archive Not under consideration

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