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customer needs more information in Operations Center to be able to effectively perform disaster recovery.

A customer needs more information in the Operations Center to be able to effectively perform Disaster Recovery (testing or real-life). This includes:- Volume history information for DB Backup/DB Snapshot.- DRM Volumes and status/location. - volume...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

CSM ability for more than two CSM servers in configuration sharing a common database and staying in synch. Active/Active

3. The ability two have more than two Servers actively sharing the same CSM database. As an Active/Active instead of an Active/Standby configuration. The ability to have more than two servers join the same CSM configuration and stay in Synch with ...
over 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Nodes with retention sets require to have dedicated metadata to be replicated to target server void expiration of data

Hi Team, i having issue in performance on Source TSM server due to TSM DB size is more than 13TB in size, so my management requested to split current TSM server with Multiple server (2 new TSM server). So by moving Filesystem backup for top 40serv...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

access to the object is denied backup error does not fail a snapdiff backup.

Snapdiff backup shows completed successfully even when encountering ANS4007E access to the object is denied. This error should result if a backup failure. If access denied shows up at directory/volume level then no data may be backed up hence defe...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

IBM SPP to show daily replication throughput

Customer needs to know the daily replication throughput and status for SPP vsnap replication.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Integrate Restore UI with Spectrum Protect server

Symentac Netbackup, Commuvault and other Backup software have RESTORE UI integrated with Master server console. We need to develop Spectrum Protect with the RESTORE UI integrated with Spectrum Protect server
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Enable nas backup to use container stg pools

Today celera nas backup must use a devclass=file as target for backup. Please make container stgpool available as a target for NAS backup in general.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

mmchconfig and mmvdisk configure need to be more transparent

Today, there is no association between mmvdisk configure and mmchconfig. The RFE is to have one command for setting both GPFS parameters and mmvdisk and for mmvdisk to have a way to preserve any previously customized parameters.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

TS7700 Performance Management, prioritize important tasks/jobs

• Problem Description:Each task/job using a virtual tape drive of a TS7700 cluster gets an equal fraction of the overall (licensed) bandwidth regardless of its importance or the current utilization (read or write, backup or recovery).Examples: – D...
about 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Future consideration

SMB lease support

Migrating system currently using a windows share to Spectrum scale and experiencing performance issues:The Windows server grantsSMB leases to the client, thus multiple opens won't break the client caching. As a result there are fewer and larger RE...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration