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Request for improvement that the deferred copies should start soon after demount.

Generally deferred copy is very useful to copy logical volumes to the remote clusters between long distance and to avoid longer job's elaps time than that sync or immediate copy consitency point brings on the grid configration.Today, deferred copi...
over 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Planned for future release

optimize output in the microcode "health check" panel in the DSGUI

We moved from 89.32.40.0 to 89.33.35.0 using the internal microcode function of the DS GUI.Everything works fine, but we think that the UX and GUI output of the "System Health Check" could be visualy better. So you can better understand what you s...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Allow SP Plus backups to Spectrum Protect server w/o requiring a backup to the vSnap storage first

A backup to Spectrum Protect is not possible w/o doing first a backup to a vSnap. The dependency on vSnap should be removed to allow leveraging the Spectrum Protect server storage hierarchy.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Allow user access to remote copy relationships to be restricted by ownership groups

There is the concept of ownership groups in the Spectrum Virtualize code which allows the system administrator to restrict access to users to only those objects that are defined within that ownership group. There is a list of objects to which acce...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

Provide a CLI (OS) command spp_status on the SPP Server to have a quick view if all required processes are up and running

Similar to the CLI (OS) command vsnap_status on the vSnap server provide a CLI (OS) command spp_status on the SPP Server to have a quick view if all required processes are up and running.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Flashcopy support in DS8K when using Metro mirror dual leg

Mirrored volumes between two DS8K support and keep the mirror intact when using Flashcopy. We have functions in example DSS like:FCNOCOPY FASTREPLICATION(REQUIRED ) FCTOPPRCPRIMARY(PRESMIRREQ ) SW functions in DB2 have made utilities that uses the...
over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Planned for future release

SPP CONTROL BACKUP BY DATASTORE THRESHOLD

In Spectrum Protect for VE, one can configure "VMDATASTORETHRESHOLD" in order to control if Snapshots/Backups will be processed in the Datastore level. e.g: VMDATASTORETHRESHOLD 90 means that the Hypervisor will not process any snapshot in a datas...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Planned for future release

ARM Support in Spectrum Scale

The Jülich Supercompting Centre is running HPC compute resources for the European Science community. The storage solution is based of a central Spectrum Scale storage cluster which is mounted on ~8.000 compute nodes using GPFS remote cluster mount...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

Increase the maximum number of independent filesets per filesystem

Currently we are hovering under 1000 independent file sets within the user file system. Even taking into account file sets that are removed when users leave site it is very possible that we will hit the limit within a year.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

SQL Recovery Model change is not properly handled

ISPP doesn't handle changes of the SQL recovery model from "full" to "simple" as it would be suitable for a enterprise product.When a DB with Log Backup enabled is changed to simple recovery model, there will be warnings that the log backup is fai...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

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