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Keep the base hardware relationships on the storage system: by default

When removing copy sets from the Safeguarded Copy session, the following options are available: Remove the hardware relationships (option by default) Keep the base hardware relationships on the storage system. A customer would like that the “keep”...
about 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

Add afmRefreshOnce and afmReaddirOnce parameters to ISS REST API fileset endpoints

With ISS 5.0.5"Data migration by using AFM migration enhancements" was introduced. And with it two new fileset parameters afmRefreshOnce and afmReaddirOnce. In 5.1 you introduced these parameters in the REST API GET fileset calls but not in the PO...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

CANCEL PROTECT or DURATION on PROTECT STGPOOL

CANCEL PROTECT and/or a DURATION option for PROTECT STGPOOL is needed.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

Platform migration between same endians w/o. export/import

The only supported method for platform migration is via export/import of data, which (despite that it is really time consuming and tedious) is practically not possible in some circumstances, like when the customer uses a huge amount of WORM media,...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Delivered

Upgrade individual Data Collectors via GUI

Currently the only Data Collector upgrade option in the Storage Insights GUI is the button to upgrade all collectors. We would prefer to roll out the Data Collector upgrade in stages without having to do the upgrade manually. A good option for us ...
about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Delivered

Lockheed Martin - SVC Pool Rebalance

SVC Pool rebalance! This is a manual process today.
about 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Delivered

Scheduled Task Creation and Modification commands are needed for REST API and CLI to automate Volume Group Snapshot configuration.

The newer version of Safeguarded Copy in the FlashSystems does not have the sessions automatically imported like the Legacy FC based Safeguarded Copy did. Everything is available to automate this process via the CLI or REST API except the Schedule...
about 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

Stagger Remote Copy Consistency Group cycles

Would like Spectrum Virtualize to automatically stagger the cycles of Remote Copy Consistency Groups (RCCG's). When using GMCV's, all volumes in the RCCG start a FlashCopy mapping at the exact same point-in-time when a new cycle is started for the...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Automatically send audit log records to an external receiver

Currently audit logging is only stored on a cluster. It can be downloaded using 'catauditlog' or 'dumpauditlog'. Like the external syslog receivers, it should be possible to automatically send audit log records to an external receiver like RSA Nvi...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Delivered

Three-site replication

The ability to replicate a vdisk (using global- or metromirror) to multiple sites concurrently.
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

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