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Enhancment to Spectrum Scale DMAPI - dmapiEventTimeout code

The Spectrum Scale Data Management API for HSM integration has a configuration parameter dmapiEventTimeout with specific behaviour for NFS environments. However, this behaviour does not translate to other protocol scenarios such as AFM, SMB or Obj...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

CSM ability for more than two CSM servers in configuration sharing a common database and staying in synch. Active/Active

3. The ability two have more than two Servers actively sharing the same CSM database. As an Active/Active instead of an Active/Standby configuration. The ability to have more than two servers join the same CSM configuration and stay in Synch with ...
over 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Add the source/target DS8K serial or WWN in the DSCLI lspprc command output

When issuing the lspprc command, the output shows you the type of pprc and the source/target lss, but not to which DS8K you are copying to/from. In a multitarget environnement with a lss being the source of multiple pprc, knowing the targeted DS8K...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

TSM Node replication should report warning instead of failure when associated node cannot be replicated

TSM 7.1.x reports a replication failure when a client node that has been setup for replication has an associated node which is not setup for replication or is a Receive Node. Replication succeeds, but process result is FAILURE, which is not the ca...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Movement of Config node without node reboot

Ties into RFE 114313.command structure or flag that can be used to set the next targeted config node, then be able to execute the movement of the config node without requiring a reboot of the current config node.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

SPP for Microsoft 365 : backup shared mailboxes

In the Microsoft Exchange Online (365) product, you have mailboxes linked to existing people (people with mail license) that you can backup.But, you also have "shared mailboxes" (Microsoft's term) that do not need mail license. However, I'd like t...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

CSM triggered backup of logs -feature add

CSM should trigger automatic backup of logs to files in case of a critical event related to replication occurs. Reason to request this feature >CSM logs are getting overwritten in a very short period of time that critical events disappear from ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

customer needs more information in Operations Center to be able to effectively perform disaster recovery.

A customer needs more information in the Operations Center to be able to effectively perform Disaster Recovery (testing or real-life). This includes:- Volume history information for DB Backup/DB Snapshot.- DRM Volumes and status/location. - volume...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

e-mail notification when "Data collector interruption " is resolved

User can chose to receive a notification when "Data collector interruption for IBM Storage Insights" is resolved
about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Support to backup S3-based on-premise Object storage (private cloud) to Tapes using ISP or ISPP

Object storage is trending these days and we want to be able to secure it using IBM Spectrum Protect or IBM SPP on tapes. Currently no option to do so on standard S3 protocol. Other vendors are supporting backing up S3-based object storage into ta...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 5 Planned for future release

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