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Storage pool Protect query

The Protect command In Spectrum Protect writes data to a target storage pool. There is no way to display the 'protected' data that resides in the target pool. Something like Q OCC PROTECT nodename/stgpoolname . And it would also be nice to know ah...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

Make IBM block storage arrays provide the "port symbolic name" to HBAAPI clients

Other vendors' storage arrays populate this data with something useful that can be a vital hint for system administrators. Not providing it kind of bites. If this RFE is accepted, I'll put one in for the AIX team to enhance "fcstat" to report on it.
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Snapdifferntial backups for Netapp data on tap cluster mode (c-mode)

Tivoli Storage Manager Backup/Archive ClientNetapp Filer CIFS and NFS share backups.Currently Netapp snapshot functionality can be used by TSM to perform snap differential backups. This is particularly useful for large file systems with millions o...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Delivered

Immutable snapshot

Secure immutable snapshot support for Spectrum Virtualize code. similar to Secure Copy on DS8K. That allows multiple read-only snapshots, can not be deleted, or modified. can only be used by another group user than the original user.
about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Fix Label Libvolume to report failure when encountering errors instead of failing to work yet reporting Success.

Label Libvolume processes can encounter errors but report Completed Successfully
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

Notification for offline volumes after the stop of FC mapping

When a FlashCopy mapping is stopped the target volumes (in case it is not 100% synced) goes offline. If a Spectrum Control server is monitoring the system, it sees offline target volumes in the same way as any other offline volumes regardless of t...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Include DNS

Include DNS for manage the NTP and eMail-Servers.
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Increase IP Remote Copy Replication speed for single volumes

As discussed with Albert Verhoef (IBM Pre-Sales Storage) I'll submit the following issue where we urgently needs a fix for: Our application can only use ONE volume. This volume is can be between 20TB to 347 TB in size. Test set on site is built as...
about 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

mmkeyserv: changing from regular to simplified setup

Our system was setup for encryption a few years ago with "regular setup" for the key management (manual copy and synchronisation of RKM.conf, etc).To simplifiy and secure the regular key exchange, we want to switch to the "simplified setup" using ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

DS8000 Host Adapter - fcping support

Provide fcping capability on DS8K host adapters similar to what existed on 8Gb HAs. Below is a comment from IBM Development REF PMR 23506,082,000 regarding ECHO ELS handling in newer HAs. "It looks like it is a difference on how the ECHO ELS is ha...
almost 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

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