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Ability to schedule maintenance policy

Allow user to modify the time at which the maintenance policy will be started. An acceptable workaround would be to change the start time via a REST API call.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

Cloud based quorum

For SVC stretched clusters more flexibility is required. Currently only a expensive fibre channel solution can be used as a quorum system in the 3rd location.
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

Enhance mmkeyserv to make configs possible with CA signed Rest-API Certs.

Currently to define the mmkeyserv rkm Config in an CA-Trusted GKLM Environment where the https/Rest-API Certs are CA signed the configuration are not possibly. This is a security flow and can not accepted in the area of cybercrime. The current pos...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Allow SPP catalog restores from COS or SP

Spectrum Protect Plus stores the metadata information in a catalog which can be backed up to a vSnap repository. This information can not be stored on COS or an ISP server. This would end up in non-discoverable information in the event of the whol...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

Increase speed of eeadm tape export on large file systems

The automotive supplier ZF uses Spectrum Archive EE in multiple installations as DR solution, as migration destination and to move data around the world (export / import). On the main site, they run a >30Pbyte file system for ADAS development a...
about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Delivered

Add decomission node command to TSM

An ability to put a node into 'decomissioned' mode, so that it can locked and cannot perform any more backups but is still available for restore. At the same time the node data can be scheduled for deletion after a period of days that is compliant...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 11 Delivered

IP Replication partnerships limit more than 1

We have the following limit in IP Replication: Only a single partnership over IP is supported (page 412 on redbook sg247938 Implementing the IBM Storwize V7.4). Several customers are demanding when it will be increased to 3 like in FC Replication
about 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Delivered

Retrule exclude decommission vm filespaces

We make every first sunday a retset over all vm and keep them for 3 month. Simply define an retrule with an generic filter to catch all vm. All VM are under node SUVA_SWWVC62 and the Filter is SUVA_SWWVC62:* When we decommission an vm this vm will...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Erase on Scratch

We have been directed to implement the ERASE on Scratch (ALL) setting on our IBM Systems. Testing was done in our Development environment, but users notified us that the elapsed times of jobs that deleted large disk files were significantly longer...
about 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 9 Delivered

Increase bitmap limit for features in Storwize/Spectrum Virtualize

Particularly in the Storwize family of products, the current ~512MiB of bitmap space is insufficient given the size of storage systems. Even a "small" V7000 system, for instance, may have several PiBs of disk. The default settings perform a volume...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Delivered

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