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Expire individual backups in Spectrum Protect Plus

Expire individual host/application backups assigned to SLA policy
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus support for Db2 Purescale

Customer who has majority of database residing on Db2 of which 90%+ of those databases are Db2 Purescale requires support for this platform in Spectrum Protect Plus.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Column heading if " damadmc -COMMAdelimited"

am startingdsmadmc -TCPSERVERADDRESS=IP -tcpport=1500 -COMMAdelimited -id=MyID -password=(MyPassword) Is there a way to provide reasonable column header. I.e.Protect: TSMUNX04>q stat will provide next output ..... SrvName,,1500,On,Yes,2013.07.2...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

An option to disable unmount mount for bulk selective recalls using multiple file lists from the same tape.

If you do bulk selective recalls, with multiple file lists coming from the same tape, storage archive unmounts the tape after finishing the list. After starting the new list, the same tape is mounted again. This causes massive delays mounting and ...
9 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 2 Future consideration

Properly manage Archive Mode flag in TS1150/TS1155 tape drives

The IBM TS1150 and TS1155 Enterprise tape drives has a configuration setting called Archive Mode [1] which controls whether archive mode unthread (also called low tension refresh) should be performed on tape unload. In recent firmwares [2] the def...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Is a defect

Request to add "all" option to put filesystem in maintenance mode

In order to shutdown/startup gpfs gracefully, it is recommended to put filesystem in maintenance mode using "mmchfs --maintenance-mode" cmd before shutdown. However, this command allow only one filesystem at a time. So if the customer has many fil...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Fiserv is looking for MFA support with Microsoft Entra ID on IBM DS8900 storage arrays.

Fiserv is standardizing on Microsoft Entra ID for MFA and asking all of their storage vendors to certify Entra ID with their products.
9 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

CSM Co-existance with lower-level or different level CSM.

2. The ability for CSM software to co-exist with a lower-level or different-level CSM software in a CSM configuration where they are sharing one or the same CSM database.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Ability to obtain environmental information

Many customers want to know in live environmental information such as total power usage (in watts) and inlet temperature (in degrees Celsius) on their TS7700 units. This information is available on DS8K storage arrays via GUI or CLI commands but i...
over 1 year ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

'failureDetectionTime' less than 10

We require to set 'failureDetectionTime' less than 10 in File System replica with DAE/DME or Erasure Coding with ECE. According to case #TS009816891, the minimum value for 'failureDetectionTime' is 10. Could you please allow us to set less than 10...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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