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Backup catalog/database to different site

Have the possibility to backup the catalog and SPP database to another site as the SPP server. Example, we backup now everuthing to the primary site. But for disaster recovery it would be nice to have the possibility to backup the catalogs (and SP...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

SVC can be connected to security logging and monitoring system

The requirement is that as audit events are generated; a syslog message is sent into the audit system. We would like the ability to configure multiple syslog destinations for resilience and also have the ability to specify the target port.Applies ...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

V7000 Legal Disclaimer

A customizable legal disclaimer should be configurable at logon
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

V7000 Diasable Factory Account

It is a requirement to disable the default factory account
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

copy export for z/VM

We mutualize our TS7700 with our clients. When a client requires to use it, we would like to export our data to give him a TS7700 we can clean up for his standalone restore. Then be able to restore our data when he has finished his exercice.
over 2 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Delivered

Remove 3-1 core allocation for RTC

Please could you remove the compression allocated to 3 cores and 1 for the system. I have seen that the single core for systems goes to 93% and the compression hovers around 22% and the system is slow. I would suggest having a limiter (Like QoS) t...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Create a new column in percentile within Storage Insights for "SafeGuarded Copy SGC Used Capacity"

The SGC reserved capacity is set per volume. This capacity can be set to whatever multiplier of the original CKD volume itself. To be able to monitor this SGC reserved capacity it is imperative to have a column for SGC Used Capacity in percentage ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Delivered

Tool to generate clusterdefinition.txt from a running cluster

clusterdefinition.txt is the core of the toolkit that is used not only for install but during the lifecycle of the cluster. Due multiple reasons (HW fail on node that was used to deploy, manual add of nodes, NSD, IPs, ..., many other) the file wou...
about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Storwize IP replication allow more than one cycle period

Title: Storwize IP replication allow more than one cycle periodTCC Client Owner: Jason Robinson, Tyson FoodsPriority: MediumProblem description: IP replication allows only single cycle periodCurrent workaround: NoneProposed resolution: Allow multi...
about 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

add support for "defaultHelperNodes" in AFM

mmafmctl always runs "mmapplypolicy" over all nodes which mount filesystem regardless of definitions of "defaultHelperNodes"As for now, the Helper nodes in AFM code are hardcoded as "mount" (see mmafmctl), while existing configuration parameter "d...
about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered