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VTS db2 reorg planning change

VTS db2 reorg is statically planned. Due to client activity changes, it comes a time where reorg is planned during high VTS activity and then does not end within the required amount of time. Reorg may not be effective until many weeks. As of today...
over 6 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

ELB not managed by TPC/R

For an effective and convenient management of a DS8000 replication environment, it would be very useful if TPC-R could manage ELB timeout for every LCU/LSS in a MM/MGM environment. In fact, a clear display of this parameter for the session (e.g. t...
over 11 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

SI needs to include the SRC for any DS8k event it receives

SI needs to include the SRC for any DS8k event it receives.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Allow prioritisation of policies

Allow prioritization of the execution of policies based on SLA. Each SLA will have a priority number associated with it (0=no priority/undefined, 1=highest...99=lowest). When defined the policy number would would mean that when SLAs are running co...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Report the opened IBM ticket number back to the Storwize GUI after a call home occurred.

Feature: Report the opened IBM ticket number back to the Storwize GUI after a call home occurred. When the Storwize system makes a call home we do not know if it successfully created a ticket at IBM. Also when IBM calls back and you have multiple ...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

For V7000 and SVC create an automated report for the status of Global Mirror sessions

Create a global mirroring report providing the status of V7000 and SVC Global mirroring that can be automatically run daily and sent via email to end users. Should contain the following (at a minimum)CG_Name Active Connnected CurrentDate/Time Last...
over 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus: can only search for databases, not SQL Servers or instances.

From our DBA:"For SQL backup, how do I search by server or SQL Instance name? Currently, I can only search by a database name. When a SQL Instance has more than one databases, how do I select a SQL Instance and run the backup so that it will backu...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Require key auth SSH only for Storage Insights, SpectrumScale

System: IBM Spectrum Control Storage InsightsActor: Organisation needing new auth-method enabled to be able to consume platform UQ has evolved data governance, capacity management and growth metrics as a key import factor in project planning and f...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

No Copy option on Metro Mirror w/P session

In DS8K environments using ESE volumes we would like to have the No Copy option for Metro Mirror with practice sessions as already available on GM w/P session type.
over 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Need complete version information in GUI question mark info

When using the GUI the granularity of the version info only displays 2.0.4, it does not include the build version or forth element of version number (2.0.4.1). Right now only administrators can identify the full version installed via the command p...
over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Future consideration

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