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Spectrum Protect 8.1.7 Retrule for NDMP data

Client have requirement to retain the NDMP data for long term retention. We have upgraded the Spectrum Protect servers from 8.1.6 to 8.1.7 and tried to enable the retrule for NDMP data. But unfortunately that feature is not enabled for NDMP /datam...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Scale should support resource management using cgroups version 2 with systemd

The current systemd version in RHEL 8 is now capable doing resource management using cgroups version 2.We are interested in the feature to configure I/O bandwidth. But to use it a device is needed: IOReadIOPSMax=device IOPS, IOWriteIOPSMax=device ...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Create, modify and remove TSM scripts

We want the functionality to create, modify and remove TSM/SP scripts from the Operation Center. This was a standard functionality in Tivoli Intergrated Portal but is not availible in the OC
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Add new statistics for internally generated operations that contribute to backend I/O

Add new statistics for internally generated operations that contribute to backend I/O.The new statistics should be reported for the mdisks by node.
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

SPP re-catalog from vSnap content (consistency audit)

Ability for SPP server to populate/crosscheck its catalog information based on Vsnap content. Just like an audit to ensure that everything that is stored on Vsnap is known in the catalog, plus the ability to register images found on vSnap which wo...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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

Allow user to display "volume full name" and "volume short name" at his conveniance using existing table twistie

In huges banking Z/os csm implamentation, we can deal with many DS8000 having each more than 100 000 volumes. Having this ability will avoid fingerchecks when usin CSM GUI to perform troubleshooting tasks when things are not work as expected.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future 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

Change status of a need_replace tape

The eeadm tape replace command is a command that take long time because when this command is in the reclaim phase, is only allowed to use two tape drive although a regular "eeadm tape reclaim" command is allowed to use more tape drive. Sometime, a...
9 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 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