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Accuracy of Spectrum control summary overall storage usage , it didnt show sum up virtual capacity of SGC volumes

Spectrum Control is not accurate enought. DS8K business today is very often using the SGC Backup as majors tactics to protect against cyber threats. Would be very very valuable to have this storage capacity easy to be followed up from a simple GUI...
12 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Enable Replication to start on backup completion rather than having to state a start time

Enable Replication to start on backup completion rather than having to state a start time.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Not under consideration

parallel SAP HANA Log Backup of HDBBackint to two destinations

customer wants to change the way HDBackint works with two destinations.'REDOLOG_COPIES 2' is slower than'REDOLOG_COPIES 1', because of the way how the logs are being processedby hdbbackint:.hdbbackint uses one thread for reading a data buffer from...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Not under consideration

Add support for wide links in protocol nodes/mmsmb

wide links is a parameter supported by SMB exports configuration. But currently it is not possible to specify it when adding a new smb share with the "mmsmb export add" command.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

Archive/Retrieve in IBM Spectrum Protect V8.1.7 and above Secure Web GUI

We plan to upgrade IBM Spectrum Protect server code and client code to 8.1.7 and above. During functional test, we found that the new secure webclient is missing Archive/Retrieve function. As we have many users to use the traditional web client to...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Allow user to adjust the number of "keep alive" requests that can be missed before a storage device sends 2020 error event

IBM needs to add a feature that would allow people who manage IBM storage devices to adjust the number of "keep alive" requests that can be missed before a storage device sends 2020 error event emails about Remote Copy links being down --- 99% of ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Display freeze time for remote copy remote copy relationships in Storage Insights

Customer has requested to be able to view Freeze Time for remote copy relationships within the Storage Insights GUI.Other remote copy information is viewed through navigating to: Resources - Block Storage Systems - Click the storage device - Click...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Not under consideration

Shorten CES failover/failback timeout

The io pending time in the failure of CES interface failure/CES node failure is 10s. Customer‘s expectation is 4-5s so that can improve usage experience.
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

different failoverhladdresses for nodes

there is only the option to set failoverhladdress globally. but if there are tsmnodes coming through many different interfaces, there is no way to set this for each interface or at least node-specific
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Need better support to use specific CSM server IP address/hostname

Currently CSM does not have a documented way to define a specific IP address or hostname to be used for the CSM service. I found following potential places where this can be configured, but there could be other places as well: - ../wlp/usr/servers...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

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