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Please add formal support for "Storage Groups" on SVC/V7K

There is currently no formal functionality to create a 'storage group' (or container) on SVC/V7K platforms as of version 6.4. Users are forced to either create many multiple individual host-to-lun masks OR create 'arbitrary' storage groups by labe...
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Delivered

Dynamic volume expansion for HyperSwap volumes

We urgently need the support for dynamic volume expansion at HyperSwap volumes. Currently one HyperSwap volume copy needs to be removed to enable the volume expansion and afterwards to be re-created &re-synchronized again to do this. This resu...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

Customer is asking if storage insights can track in it's log which users are accessing what data.

Required from an audit perspective to determine which employees are accessing SI and reviewing data collected by SI.
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Delivered

VTS Physlib enhancement - TS7760T

For library maintenance operations, the TS7770T has to be put in Service Prep mode. Hence during all operations even planned ones, this cluster is unavailable.From ATS: unfortunately the Physlib is not designed for "planned outages". See the Host ...
over 5 years ago in IBM TS7700 2 Delivered

Storwize - simplify flashcopy restoration process

Currently in the event of restoring a volume using a flashcopy it is required for a reverse flashcopy to be created and then the new mapping to be started with the -restore flag. This requires a degree of understanding of how the technology that i...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Delivered

Ability to schedule maintenance policy

Allow user to modify the time at which the maintenance policy will be started. An acceptable workaround would be to change the start time via a REST API call.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

Enhanced VM excludes for TSM for VE

Enhancement to TSM for VE set up to allow an include/exclude file for selective exclusion / inclusion of VMs from backup (similar to BAClient model).
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 6 Delivered

Cloud based quorum

For SVC stretched clusters more flexibility is required. Currently only a expensive fibre channel solution can be used as a quorum system in the 3rd location.
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

Enhance mmkeyserv to make configs possible with CA signed Rest-API Certs.

Currently to define the mmkeyserv rkm Config in an CA-Trusted GKLM Environment where the https/Rest-API Certs are CA signed the configuration are not possibly. This is a security flow and can not accepted in the area of cybercrime. The current pos...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Allow SPP catalog restores from COS or SP

Spectrum Protect Plus stores the metadata information in a catalog which can be backed up to a vSnap repository. This information can not be stored on COS or an ISP server. This would end up in non-discoverable information in the event of the whol...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

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