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Endtime like parameter on replicate command to limit runtime on process

An option to be able to specify an endtime for a replication job to run to is desired. This way it would be possible to start a replication job, and have it stop automatically .e.g. at 07:30:00 - without having another administrative schedule to c...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

Introduce the capability to exclude certain volumes from the volume-protection feature

The volume protection feature is a global setting to prevent volumes from being deleted unless there's been no I/O during a certain amount of time. We would like to have the option to have a volume exclusion list so the feature could be enabled wi...
about 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

While starting a consistency group, a "CMMVC7102E" error does not disclose the names of problem secondary volume(s).

Normally starting a consistency group on a IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) is a fairly simple and straightforward process. However, occasionally you may run into an error condition where the consistency group is unable to start because of a confli...
about 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Please provide functionality so that Storage Insights can show hostconnect logins by DS8 IO Port

From the host logins page in the DS8 GUI, and from the lshostconnect -login table we can easily see which hostconnects are logged into which DS8 IO port. In Storage Insights Pro, the GUI seems to specifically omit the IO Port columns in what is pr...
about 6 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Delivered

Enhanced security for Spectrum Scale admin

Administrative access to Spectrum Scale (including but not limited to the WebUI) has a weak security model.
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

Storwize V7000 support for T10 DIF / PI standard for open system operating systems

Storwize V7000 needs to support T10 DIF / PI standard to secure data integrity
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Backup HyperV VMs more backup Types & Options

more backup types & options for hyperV VMs not only full backup and restore
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Delivered

Support for the TSM 6.1, 6.2, and 6.3 Linux x86/x86_64 Backup-Archive client on Linux distribution Ubuntu 12 ?

Support for the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) 6.1, 6.2, and 6.3 Linux x86/x86_64 Backup-Archive client on Linux distribution Ubuntu 12. Today, IBM supports only Ubuntu 10 and 11.http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21417165#6.3%20DI...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Delivered

DMAPI call dm_fd_to_handle can cause kernel crash

Our concerns centre around the behaviour of dm_fd_to_handle and dm_path_to_handle. According to the Data Storage Management (XDSM) API specification, these functions should fail with ENXIO when “The file system containing the file opened on fd or ...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

ITM for TSM agent (SK) is un-usable in existing environment

ITM for Tivoli Storage Manager is only offered as an all-inclusive ITM installation (utilizing the much loathed DE no less..) This packaging is different than any other ITM agent offered by IBM that we have seen. It makes remotely deploying, maint...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

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