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Ability to define the mirrorwritepriority parameter during creation of a vdisk mirroring in the GUI.

Ability to define the mirrorwritepriority parameter during creation of a vdisk mirroring in the GUI.
almost 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Node replication failed and does not replicate all data if a communication error occurred on the source or target server

The node replication failed and does not replicate all data if a communication error occurred on the source or target replication server.Occasionally, node replication will complete with a FAILURE in spite of replicating all objects after having a...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

change owner ID of archived objects, in GUI it is not possible to see the archived data if owner id not exist anymore

change owner ID of archived objects.In GUI it is not possible to see the archived data if the owner id does not exist anymore. we were advised that we should open an RFE for this: Answer from IBM: There is not a way to change OWNER after the objec...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Custom certificate for TSM-VE for VMware plugin

I would like to get an interface or at least a procedure (commands) to replace the builtin autogenerated certificate push in TSM-VE plugin for VMware. Actually, we need to manually install this autogenerated certificate on each new machine that co...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Add functionality to Data Protection For Exchange to allow restore of soft deleted mailboxes

System: Data Protection For Exchange Actor: User needing to recover soft deleted mailboxes.Data protection is a commonly used product that provides backup/restore for Exchange environments. Description: We use Data Protection For Exchange to prote...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Not under consideration

Flashcopy Offload Optimization of db2_all command

Offload apparently waiting for several minutes.We saw issues during our offload testing with failing db2inidb commands when the log directories were not there. That is why we created the piece of code to create the log directories. Since for multi...
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

CES/NFS/SMB Function Enhancements

1) CES FO/FB timeout, shorten the io pending time in the failure of CES node failure/GPFS node failure/one of FG failure in replication mode. The io pending time should be less than 4-5s. 2) AFM/DR RPO Interval, the minimal RPO interval is 60 minu...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Notification of events related to the temperature of SVC cluster nodes in the Storage Management (GUI).

We need to view on the Storage Management or a event log, the events related with the temperature threshold of the SVC nodes.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

SVC Snaps - customer related info

SVC Snaps contains data such as IP , host names .customer request to remove the sensitive data from snaps
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Change dafault on deployments

Reevaluate default settings for retention of events and how frequent you pull or generate them. Option set:Activity Log Retention: 120 Day(s) - keep actlog longer than 4 quarter time limit, 100 days bare minimum, old setting from a time when 1GB o...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

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