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VTS db2 reorg planning change

VTS db2 reorg is statically planned. Due to client activity changes, it comes a time where reorg is planned during high VTS activity and then does not end within the required amount of time. Reorg may not be effective until many weeks. As of today...
over 6 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

SI needs to include the SRC for any DS8k event it receives

SI needs to include the SRC for any DS8k event it receives.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Report the opened IBM ticket number back to the Storwize GUI after a call home occurred.

Feature: Report the opened IBM ticket number back to the Storwize GUI after a call home occurred. When the Storwize system makes a call home we do not know if it successfully created a ticket at IBM. Also when IBM calls back and you have multiple ...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Replication of Larger file systmes from COS

Hi Mitul, I have the answer now for the difference between client restore from cloud vs replication from cloud 1: the normal restore from the cloud was making use of the chunk cache and async read. Those tools can in some cases make the restore fr...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Allow prioritisation of policies

Allow prioritization of the execution of policies based on SLA. Each SLA will have a priority number associated with it (0=no priority/undefined, 1=highest...99=lowest). When defined the policy number would would mean that when SLAs are running co...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

For V7000 and SVC create an automated report for the status of Global Mirror sessions

Create a global mirroring report providing the status of V7000 and SVC Global mirroring that can be automatically run daily and sent via email to end users. Should contain the following (at a minimum)CG_Name Active Connnected CurrentDate/Time Last...
over 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

why exclude.dir not favor archive?

why exclude.dir not favor archive?and there is no other option for exclude dir for archive backup.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

No Copy option on Metro Mirror w/P session

In DS8K environments using ESE volumes we would like to have the No Copy option for Metro Mirror with practice sessions as already available on GM w/P session type.
over 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Restore by Tag

Hello, in case we want to restore a lot of server we must do it by rest api or by clic one per one each vms we want restore. It very painfull to do that. It would be great to restore using tag. If my environnement is balised with tags I should abl...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Require key auth SSH only for Storage Insights, SpectrumScale

System: IBM Spectrum Control Storage InsightsActor: Organisation needing new auth-method enabled to be able to consume platform UQ has evolved data governance, capacity management and growth metrics as a key import factor in project planning and f...
about 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

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