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Use Volume Groups for host mapping

Volume groups have become more and more useful for new functions such as SafeGuarded Copy, Snapshows 2.0 and regently Policy Based Reprication. While some customers my not be able to utilize the new functions new or when they start with a new flas...
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

TS7700 Option to select any or all Cache Partitions to be Cache only

Within the TS7700T we have the option of create CP1 - CP7 (CP0 is cache only). When defining a new Cache Partition I would like to have the option of selecting if a Cache Partition is Cache w/tape or Cache Only. We would also like this option for ...
over 6 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Allow the customers to use SSO / SAML with their domain

As our company security request, it will be better that we can have the function that support SSO/SAML with our domain to login the IBM Insights.
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

allow group pools to be used as the DEFAULT placement policy

If the default placement policy. If a disk pool is allowed as the default rule there should never be a "no free space error" when attempting to write a new file.
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

The problem of ANE4007E in your case is because you try to backup CITRIX files with a Reparse Tag IO_REPARSE_TAG_CITRIX_PM (

We are not able to backup user profiles for windows server that belongs to citrix environement.Refer IBM case id for etailed information about case and let me kow if more information needed for thia case.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Administraive user on Filer

for clustured-data ONTAP NetApp filers, the only capability that is required is ontaoapi with the admin role
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Link the volume name to the subsession on LSVOL command

Customer is scripting command in open environment with CSMSCLI.The environment is a GM environment with the use of sub-session as the customer wants a granularity at the VM level.He needs to find to whom session LUN(s) belongs to in order to creat...
over 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Intellectual disk drive updates

If the system has multiple types of disks and a user tries to upgrade all of them, some disks may fail to update. This causes the whole upgrade process to stop and leave all the remaining disks (even upgradable) at an older version. In this case a...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Add path status in Overview Screen Page

In IBM Copy Service Manager It's possible add path status in Overview Screen Page?? We monitoring Overview page for potential issues of session, server connection, but we don't see path status, that is visible only in a specific screen
almost 9 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

Drop off state F-SYS after Basic Hyperswap

Hello Support, after loading the Basic Hyperswap configuration all secondary devices get state F-SYS. This state persists untill the next IPL. CSM has commands to Suspend PPRC-Pairs ("Stop") and to Delete PPRC-Pairs ("Terminate"). I expect another...
over 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 3 Future consideration