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    Add the ability to remove a TS7770 Feature - FC 5271

    Once a customer has a Grid installation of numerous TS7700s, FC5271 is required on all new additions/changes to the grid going forward. For a customer that is no longer using (or was never using) this feature, there is no way to remove the feature...
    over 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Allow the creation of Monthly reports via OC

    Allow the creation of Monthly reports via Operations Center
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

    Perform Remote Pair FlashCopy on *all* Metro Mirror pairs in a parallel PPRC setup

    We have four site replication where the primary devices have two targets (Parallel Metro Mirror). Currently Remote Pair FlashCopy (pmir) is only able to be enabled on one leg. When HyperSwap is enabled on the leg without pmir enabled, a FlashCopy ...
    about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    Change the status of this type of error , so no PARTIAL status is returned. Only some warnings in job log.

    Error Message in the Application Inventory Job, which ends the Job partially (This trigger always a Ticket): [example.server.ch] A running instance was not found for database EXAMPLE. This error is raised because autostart is enabled in oratab. A ...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Re-seeding of backups from secondary to primary vSnap

    SPP doesn't support re-seeding of backups from secondary to primary vSnap in the event of primary vSnap pool corruption/data loss. A full baseline backup is initiated if backups pointed to secondary or to a new built primary vSnap.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    Protocols - S3: optional directory path for S3 CreateBucket

    We would like to see the flag (--filesystemPath) from the mms3 command on the protocol nodes implemented in the actual API. We have teams that utilize the s3 api that we would like to be able to have them specify the path themselves instead of hav...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    SCSI Unmap at thin SVC volumes: recalculate after Unmap operation the reported value of actual written capacity

    If SCSI Unmap operations are executed at SVC thin provisioned volumes, then the SVC GUI reflects the related physical allocation reduction on a consistent way (please see column “Usable Capacity” in the “Pools” view of the SVC GUI). But the data v...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    SPP connection to ILMT

    In our environment we collect all necessary licenses with ILMT for IBM spectrum protect. In SPP 10.1. according the documentation license requirements could be captured with ILMT (Chapter 19. Licensing).But with clarification on ILMT-side (TS00381...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    Operation Center - Logs and alerts for attempted or executed Restricted commands, new admin creation and change of password

    System: Operation Center - all platformsActor: User needing new feature Description: List of potential destructive/restricted commands attempted and executed in last 24 hrs in alert section. Also, a mechanism to send email alerts each time restric...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

    support volume groups in ownership groups

    When using ownership groups to fence off volumes/vdisks and the associated hosts and mappings there's currently no support for volume groups which are in turn required to use policy-based replication for such vdisks. As we want to replicate vdisks...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

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