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    Introduce a new command to create additional cache copies within a grid out of existing ones

    It is required to have the possibility to create new copies of virtual tapes out of existing (cache) copies in the same grid. As of today, it is not possible to create additional cached copies once the CCP is correct. TS7700 does not distinguish t...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Under review

    Introduce a new value for the maximum allowed PMTHLVL in the SETTING or SETTING2 command response

    It is required to have the currently allowed maximum of PMTHLVL in the SETTING(2) Library Request command response, e.g. as PMTHMAX This way it is possible to have a check running to verify against the current setting of PMTHLVL. Rational: It is p...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Under review

    Implementation of PMTHLVL default equal to the total of Feature Codes defined on the Cluster

    PMTHLVL is set to a default of 10’000 once a TS7770 cluster is started for the first time, no matter if all other settings were cloned from another (replaced) cluster. It is required to have the default value PMTHLVL set to the total of activated ...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Planned for future release

    Implement alerting for PMT / CPYT

    Values for PMT and/or CPYT must have the possibility to get alerted whenever a certain threshold is reached. Threshold can be Zero or - if possible - a fixed level in the SETTING or microcode. Alerting from the microcode allows faster reaction tha...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Planned for future release

    Check and Remove existing IR bitmap when Preparing for Secondary Migration to avoid full copy during resync to new secondary

    The CSM secondary migration feature uses the IR bitmap on the primary system to perform an incremental resync to a new secondary system. Actually, when CSM perform the Prepare for Secondary Migration step, it will request the DS8000 to set the IR ...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    It would be good to have an automated way for taking care of acfs file system backups

    TSM does not currently support acfs file systems (even though they can be backed up as "regular" file systems and as long as they are specifically declared as domains in the dsm.sys file (or elsewhere). We are currently facing a scenario where our...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

    Automate backup of cluster etcd

    Using Fusion backup as a cluster level DR solution requires backing up the entire etcd data so the cluster can be rebuilt before using Fusion to redeploy the projects/namespaces. OCP 4.14 includes undated instructions on backing up and restoring a...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 2 Future consideration

    ISP DP for SQL Powershell in AlwaysON Environment / restore Script

    This Script (Command Line Interface) allows us to do faster restore compare to the Graphical User Interface. MMC GUI has long wait time when restore inactive backup's as described in the case (TS004928519). In a case of ransomware we can't accept ...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Future consideration

    Set multiple file systems to maintenance mode at the same time with --maintenance-mode yes

    We have limited time when taking maintenance downtimes and we need to get file system into maintenance mode as quickly as possible. It can take a long time to get file systems into maintenance-mode, often having to wait for very long internal moun...
    7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Reduce the alert severity for TPI

    Current TPI requests spam SNMP, syslog and email alerts as they are currently set to "error" severity. Also requires to be marked as "fixed" in GUI.
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

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