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Spectrum Protect Snapshot should recognize AIX LVM mirror setup after restore

The customer operates multiple IBM Db2 databases on the AIX platform using LVM mirrored volumes.For performance reasons, specific LV to hdisk mappings are configured inside of the volume groups.Snapshot backups are created by IBM Spectrum Protect ...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

List Fileset Capacity of Data in Different Pools

Using the mmlsfileset command, GUI, or both - add ability to see what is the capacity of the fileset on differnet pools. If a filesystem has different pools ie. system, tier1, tier2, etc... using the mmlsfileset command get the percentage of the f...
9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Role Based Encryption

Storage Scale's current encryption process allows anyone with access to the encrypted filesystem, with the proper access controls, to read data that was previously written.What Discover Financial services, Lockheed Martin and Well Fargo (Matt Klos...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus ability to offload historical Data

We need the ability to offload historical data to ICOS.The customer had an environment backing up for approximately 12 months before ICOS was implemented and we started offloading.The customer wanted all its historical data offloaded to ICOS howev...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Add security certificate expiration date to "query status" output

Current options for viewing security certificate include an actlog entry when the server is started and an option to toggle on an ANR message for every session. Having the expiration date in the query status output would make an easy way for custo...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

IBM Spectrum Control - Alerts - Ability to Schedule Non-triggering Time Windows

Customers have backup windows during which a lot of alerts are triggered. Too many alerts causes customers to ignore all the alerts altogether even those that are triggerred during normal business hours. It would be great if we had the capability ...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 2 Future consideration

TDP SQL GUI more efficient for search restore point in allwaysOn cluster

Configuration: AlwaysOn DB configured on TDP for database SQL with 11 instances (Active/Inactive) with more than 70 SQL databases with MMC. Problem: When selectively restoring inactive data for a particular database, it takes a long time, up to 45...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Future consideration

S3 Object Storages compatible with Transparent Cloud Tiering

We're implementing the Transparent Cloud Tiering for a Mainframe environment and customer would like to use other on-prem solutions of Object Storage, different of TS7700 or COS, to store data. Customer would like to use: - Hitachi HCP - DellEMC E...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

installCSMDSCLI.sh env var CSM_ProductionRoot split into 2 vars

In zOS CSM DSCLI, one must run the SAMPLIB(IWNINST2) job to actually install the product via script installCSMDSCLI.sh. The script requires 3 environment variables to be set:CSM_InstallRootCSM_ProductionRootCSM_JAVA_DIR The CSM_ProductionRoot path...
4 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

HPO to support InfiniBand

In order to implement a high performant and reliable infrastructure it is required to have HPO support for deployment on InfiniBand infrastructure.
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration