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Capability to generate a "application consistent" snapshot on a secondary when replicating data with new policy-based async replication

Scenario is quite simple: client wants to generate an "application consistent" snapshot on his secondary site while data are replicated using new policy-based replication. To do so client will freeze I/O on primary site once application is in a co...
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

Provie a button or tab that exposes API calls that would have resulted in the previous GUI activity.

The command line actions used are shown when a GUI action is completed, but this does not always map to a specific API call or sequence of API calls. It would be helpful for those trying to move to automated workflows to see what the API call woul...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Future consideration

GM needs Ubuntu supported for the Spectrum Scale HSM Client asap

Customer has purchased 130PB SP License and needs to run Ubuntu for the Protect Server and HSM Client
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Host across ownership group

Customer replaced A9000 with FS9500 and runs into this issue: on SpVirt, the host object is part of the ownership group (tenant domain) (<> A9 did not consider hosts as part of the 'tenancy domain'). There is a manual workaround (chghostcl c...
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Fs Permission denined still Backup reporting as completed with this error TS004208374

we are facing backup issue, we have NFS volumes backups. one of the volume backup not happening, and schedules showing backup got completed. Please find the below error. 08/20/2020 03:30:10 ANS4007E Error processing '/netapp/bocfshanamc36-sapds-sv...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect for Ubuntu Server for IBM Z and LinuxONE

Since more about 3 years now I'm fighting to get support from IBM for an Enterprise Backup solution (TSM / Spectrum Protect) for Ubuntu Server for IBM Z and LinuxONE.This already harmed IBMs and Canonical's business, since customers asked already ...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 1 Future consideration

TCP/IP Transmission Statistics

I received a request that TDMF show in performance reporting at a Session, and optionally at a Volume level, the gross amount of data bytes to send to remote sites over TCP/IP and the accumulated number of bytes processed. Including Percent Comple...
over 4 years ago in TDMF z/OS 0 Future consideration

Improve documentation

The new IBM Product IBM Spectrum Protect Online Services (SPPOS) have support to backup M365 to a IBM Spectrum Protect S3 Objcet Agent Server. But the problem is that since a few weeks back SPPOS doesn't support self-signed certificate. By defaul...
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Protect for Cloud 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Storage Insights Pro on-prem array access credentials protocol requested

RPQ required for Spectrum Storage Insights Pro. The storage system credentials are required for Storage Insights to be able to collect data. These credentials are encrypted before being stored in the Storage Insights database, and the databases it...
over 6 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Production restore folder

"Restore in production mode if Vcenter is down" option works but this restore creates a directory in the datastore with the name of VM. If the VM folder is not identical to VM name, the production restore doesn't maitain the original name.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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