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Fusion Data Foundation Regional DR support for CP4BA

A lot of customers are already on CP4BA on OpenShift, and using FDF as their storage solution. There is a need for a Disaster Recovery solution using Fusion Data Foundation Regional DR, and to be tested with CP4BA especially these capabilities: BA...
about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Allow user to display "volume full name" and "volume short name" at his conveniance using existing table twistie

In huges banking Z/os csm implamentation, we can deal with many DS8000 having each more than 100 000 volumes. Having this ability will avoid fingerchecks when usin CSM GUI to perform troubleshooting tasks when things are not work as expected.
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Commands in FS7200 CLI needs more verbosity levels

In troubleshooting connections and logins, ie inside DNS, LDAP, Proxy, Call Home tests then cli does not give enough information. All the time snaps are needed and then look into those to troubleshoot.
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

Decomission of VM

We are waiting for documemtation on how Decomission of VMs work in SPP, Case number TS0008726 Typically we do see that customer want to do one of 3 things (in order of most common) when a VM is decomissioned:Store VM for a certain time, for exampl...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Linux VM filesystem backup/restore via SPP

We need to be able to protect filesystems and files on Linux VMs through SPP.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

mmrestripefs % complete metric is near useless

Current behavior------------------mmrestripefs (and mmdeldisk) displays a % complete metric while it is going. Unforunately, this seems to be tracking the % of the inode of the whole filesystem that it is currently working on. Deficiency of this--...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Improve handling instructions for VTS CBR3750I messages

The IBM TS7700 hardware produces a lot of information, warning and alert messages in the format of CBRxxxxx – similar to DFSMSrmm and DFSMSoam messages – which may require operator intervention by the client to mitigate or fix errors before escala...
over 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Enhanced possiblities for defining password policy in SPP

SPP does only allow to configure a minimum password length within the Global Preferences. Setting further options like: - minimum number of upper case characters- minimum number of lower case characters- minimum number of special characters- minim...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Create 'Retention set on Tape' for SQL and DB2

Creating Retention sets on tape are only possible for TDP Vmware/Hyper-V and BAclient; we would like the capability to be extended to DB2 and SQL as well. ANR1017E UPDATE RETRULE: File space SQLREP\SQL02\meta\0000 that belongs to node SQL01N1_SQL ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Subnets Config Parameter in CNSA / Remote Cluster

With MROT capability on Scale/Scale System (ESS) for Ethernet networks, the ability to use that vs. Network Bonds in OCP environments would be beneficial. In a recent lab test using an ESS3500 + OpenShift (Fusion), MROT was used initially, however...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration