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Alerting creation with OR condition

Currently multi conditional condition rule are using AND condition, in some situation ( for example where the threshold is the same) it would be efficient to create one rule with a OR condition
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

Enable FCM to use thin-provisioned target volumes if source volumes are thin provisioned

Currently it is not possible to use thin-provisioned target volumes as COPY (only with NOCOPY) with FCM even if the source volumes are thin-provisioned. This means for us to loose a lot of space for target volumes. The functionality is implemented...
over 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 4 Planned for future release

Add error handling to dsmc to avoid looping asking questions to non-existent terminal

dsmc does not handle End Of File (EOF) on stdin gracefully when the situation arises that it needs to prompt and ask a question. Instead of realizing that there is no terminal attached and abort gracefully it gets stuck in a loop forever saying: T...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Planned for future release

IBM Spectrum Protect define replication server can use multiple ip on tsm server

we want define replication server use multiple ip on tsm server . or can we use hostname for replication server and then add multiple ip resolve onetc/hosts ?
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

All GPFS services need to support FIPS.

Because of DISA-STIG requirements, all systems we use must enable FIPS. mmcallhome (and maybe other components of GPFS) use MD5 summing, which will not work on a FIPS enabled system. This needs to be fixed.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

enhancement to the query system command

Using q sys to collect serverinfo is a good way to gather information in case a PMR is opened.There are however a few things i'm missing in this command.1) For copygroups it's not possible to see the destination stgpool, either includeq copyg * ac...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

Multi Vendor Support for Snapshots in FCM/TSM

Snapshot-based DP for Applications (with a broad Application Support, including Replication Control to a secondary Storage, for virtual and native Servers, including Application driven Single File Restores and Catalog Support) is seen more and mor...
over 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Planned for future release

Allow client to choose ciphers for HMC's

The z15 allows the customer to pick the ciphers they want for https: to HMC's
over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 3 Planned for future release

REPLICATE NODE - option to mark on the remote server only the expired data

REPLICATE NODE command does not have an option to replicate (mark on the remote server) only the expired content.The expired content of a nodename is processed during the scan of the nodename, sometimes it seems that it is processed at the end of ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

Archive log utilization query

TSM 6.1 and up have no way to show the archive log utilization in the admin client. This seems to be an oversight. The query log command should be able to display this info. It should also be available via a select statement. The only way to get t...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

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