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Duration Limit on Node Replication

Our company has a need to use node replication, but we have to restrict its operation to a limited daily window. We would like to see a duration parameter similar in function to the one provided with the expiration command. As things stand now, so...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Possibility to create unique SCSI IDs by automatic LUN mappings for a host in an entire SVC cluster

today each IO group in a SVC or storwize system is a unique Storage Device for the hosts, therefore a SCSI ID (LUN) can be doubled for a host in an cluster. Some Hosts have a problem with this behavior, e.g. VMware or you can run into problems if ...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Allow monitor role to execute cpdumps command

Problem description: To pull performance stats from non config nodes the cpdumps command is used. Unfortunately users in the Monitor group are not authorized to run this command. The resulting error is "CMMVC6253E The task has failed because the u...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

DS8K GUI identification of used ports on IO cards

Problem description: no indication of what ports are in use on back of DS8KCurrent workaround: Be extra careful - check flogi on SAN
over 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

Increase the safeguarded copy memory size

Hi, Now Safeguarded copy limit is 2048Mb per IO group. The flashcopies require 1MB of memory for every 2TB of source volume capacity. I have 120 TB data and I need to use 128 retention, 2048 of memory is not enough. Copy limit for IO group must in...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Support CES NFS on SLES on Linux on Sysetm z

We run SUSE (12 and 15) SLES and the AFM DR. We need to have it running over NFS v4 since NFS V3 is considered not secure.
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Support Amazon AWS for storage pools in TSM

Support Amazon AWS and other lower cost cloud storage providers for storage in TSM pools
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

Require Generic TSM Client Login Failure Messages

TSM Backup/Archive Admin Client and Client display failures that are too explicit, and the requirement is that it is generic, in order to meet security requirements:.For this TSM issue, one message overlaps, that for the wrong password. This shoul...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Delivered

SVC dual-power cord UPS unit

Dual power connections "directly" into the SVC node UPS units.
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Expose NFS-Ganesha pseudo path option in GPFS GUI

Current GPFS GUI do not offer NFS-Ganesha pseudo path option when the NFS export is created. The customer do not like to export and mount long directory path. This is very true when we configure unified object and file access - the directory path ...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

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