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Add volume group filtering option to Add Copy Sets Wizard in addition to LSS

We would like to use CSM for our IBM i, Linux, VIOS, and AIX volumes. Unlike the mainframe storage team, we do not use LSS to manage our disk. All of our disk activities are performed via volume group in the DS8000 GUI. The flash copy option has r...
over 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Lessen Spectrum Scale CNSA's pods dependency on running as super user (root)

Today as of Scale version 5.1.1.4, some of the Container Native Storage Access (CNSA) containers for running Scale on Openshift have the need to run as super-user (root). Although it's understandable from the multi-decade history of Scale itself a...
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Manage instances eligible with the automatic deployment on OC

System: Product Spectrum ProtectActor: User needing new feature We would like to manage instances eligible with the automatic deployment on OC.As we have several instances and some with data retention licences.We would like to exclude them from th...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Rentention Sets for SAP/ERP

Spectrum Protect retention sets are utilized to achieve longer data retention without the need to make further interactions with the host. This capability is available for file and 'VE' data. We need this to be extended for other use cases, and in...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Replication status

Currently Spectrum Protect only show in the reports the status of a VM in compliance with replication policy but a person can not tell the % outstanding to replicate and or the % completed this makes reporting on the environment status much harder...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

customer needs to be able to manage Spectrum Protect volumes not in defined within a storage pool.

A customer needs more information in the Operations Center to be able to manage volumes not part of a storage pool. Specifically:- volumes containing exported data.- volumes containing backupsets.- DB backup/DBSnapshot media.- volumes correlated t...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Simplify and Enhance the Copyset Build Process using the GUI Copyset Build Wizard

We utilize CSM in our environment a lot and that utilization is increasing. Typically and probably for most users, we build the session and then have to go out to excel or some other method externally to build the .csv to build the copyset pairing...
over 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

When Safeguarded Copy is out of capacity, allow for either oldest to delete or newest to not be created

Give Safeguarded Copy customers a choice to either not create a new copy, or delete the oldest copy when SGC capacity is not sufficient to create a new copy
over 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Improve AFM to handle hard links correctly

As per https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-scale/5.1.2?topic=limitations-afm-afm-dr support for hard links in AFM is very constrained. This is especially problematic for the AFM data migration use case outlined here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/s...
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Need to sort VSNAP by name or by site in SPP GUI

We have more than 60 VSNAPs and we need to sort them by name or by site
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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