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TS7700 Flash Copy - Allow customers to Write to Flashed LVOLs - more like DS8K Flash Copy

DR Test RPQ- North Carolina Farm Bureau (NCFB) recently implemented a 2-way Tapeless Grid, Local primary Site (Raleigh, NC) replicating to Remote DR Site (IBM BCRS in Sterling Forest, NY). Prior to implementing the Tape Grid, NCFB sent physical ta...
over 6 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Planned for future release

TSM for VE / Reporting Enhancements / Software Compliance-Compatability report

Integrated report between TSM/VE and vCenter on Software versions for the following components: . vCenter . ESXihost . VM Hardware . VMtools . TSM/VE Server . TSM/VE Datamover
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

TSM for VE / Reporting Enhancement / VE Configuration report for troubleshooting & restores

VE Configuration report for restores to include the following columns: . VM Name . VM OS Platform . ESXi Cluster name . Datamover VE name . Datamover hostname . TSM/VE Server . Mount Proxy VE Name (based on the VM OS platform) . Mount Proxy hostname
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect should support Linux GFS2 filesystem

GFS2 is the standard filesystem used by Red Hat clusters for concurrent storage. It's in the same class of filesystem storage as GPFS (Spectrum Scale)
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

DECOMMISSION NODE' is not updating RETENTION RULE

Retrule contains decom vm nodes which result in failed retention set copy.Decommission node do not update retention rule so that every decomission node action requires a manual maintenance for the retention rule
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Is a defect

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

Ability to specify Node replication parameters on each node

To increase security in the node replication feature, we would like to have the option to specify the target TSM server IP, Port, Nodename and Nodepassword on individual nodes - instead of global settings, which requires server-to-server communica...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Add a column to the file report with the backup time

We are missing a column in Spectrum Discover file report for Spectrum Protect, which shows the latest backup date and time for each file.
over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Not under consideration

SVC volume naming and sorting

When using the web GUI to create multiple volumes the only option for appending a numerical suffix is to use base 10 numbers. Would like the ability to append a hex number, or even better would be to be able to use the last several digits of the U...
about 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Full Active Directory Intergration

Full Active Directory Integration as a single signon solution
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration