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Offload restore

There us already a function for offload backup. This works great. I would very much like a offload restore (not lanfree). Data would flow from tsm server to a offload host on dedicated luns. Once complete, the luns would be dismounted from the off...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 0 Delivered

Generate dpa_heatxxx-file without having EasyTier License activated

System: Storwize V3700/V5000/V7000 EasyTier and Storage Advisory ToolActor: Customers who want to calculate the IO by the Storage Advisory Tool to judge how to utilize SSD drives for EasyTier. Currently customers who want to decide whether or not ...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

iSCSI hosts supported with HyperSwap

HyperSwap is available for use with the SAN Volume Controller, Storwize V7000, and Storwize V5000 hardware platforms. However, Hyperswap as clustering over iSCSI is not supported.
almost 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Support READ Only access for PPRC Secondary volumes

In ZDL solution design, a basic requirement is to read the DB2 active log from PPRC target volumes. Especially for the long leg MTPPRC secondary volumes can be accessed READ ONLY by another Sysplex.
almost 9 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Delivered

Gathering PPRC status information should not rely on SITE A

The PPRC status information gathering should not rely on SITE A.
almost 9 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Delivered

When supporting read from PPRC secondary, if it is Duplex Pending, the secondary volumes should not be able to read.

When MTPPRC long-leg disk is at Duplex pending, long-leg volumes should be set to un-readable state
almost 9 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Delivered

Ability for protocol replication to co-exist with other non-protocol AFM-based DR instances

We need protocol replication to be able to co-exist with other non-protocol AFM-based DR instances On our advanced edition GPFS clusters, we wish to have both: o AFM-based DR for normal filesets (managed via mmafmctl) o protocol DR for filesets wi...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

CHANGE THE LIMIT OF THE PARAMETER IGNOREGDPS MORE THEN 16 LPARS

The TDMF parameter limit IGNOREGDPS is 16 lpar.If we consider that a sysplex can have a maximum of 32 lpares, thisparameter could accept more lpares.The The customer needs this parameter be changed for more then 16 lpars.
almost 9 years ago in TDMF z/OS 3 Delivered

Alert log to syslog

Hello Storwize developers,customer is our National Bank and they want to log also alert.log from storwize to syslog. They have auditing system, which checking all in syslog files and it is good idea redirect also alert log from Storwize to syslog ...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

A new option to support FQDN Name in mmgetstate

This customer has general policy for hostname and hostname does include .(dot) and the characters after .(dot) is a main separator.A sample example is below;host1.poc1host1.poc2..host1.pocn So when we add this in a cluster, mmgetstate use just sho...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

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