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Subnets Config Parameter in CNSA / Remote Cluster

With MROT capability on Scale/Scale System (ESS) for Ethernet networks, the ability to use that vs. Network Bonds in OCP environments would be beneficial. In a recent lab test using an ESS3500 + OpenShift (Fusion), MROT was used initially, however...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Secure all of Copy Services Manager for z/OS via SAF

SAF Access Currently the Copy Services Manager product that we are using, that is installed and running under z/OS, is accessed and governed by a GUI via a web browser with the appropriate IP address and port number. To logon to the CSM GUI, we pr...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Automate Spectrum Scale AFM Role Reversal Process for Failover

Request to Automate the IBM Spectrum Scale Filesystem's AFM Role Reversal Process used during failover event.
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

tivsm-ba deb package fails to restart service on upgrade

When working on verifying the fix for APAR IT35298 on case TS004574980 we noticed that the deb packages for the client doesn't properly restart the dsmcad service on upgrades. We were told that this wouldn't be fixed, and that the issue should be ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

Ability to set a low water mark used capacity threshold for flash/SCM tiers.

Hypothetical Use case: Easy tier hybrid pool with tier 0 flash, tier 1 flash and tier nearline. In the current scenario, when a lot of cold data resides on tier 1, these extents will be migrated to nearline regardless of whether tier 1 extents are...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Chargeback reporting in SPP (Pre/Post Dedup/Compression)

There is a similar RFE from a US customer but their requirements seem to differ slightly: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=119247 Request from customer on chargeback reporting in SPP. This is a requirement f...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

SP SERVER/OP CENTER: FUNCTION TO CONTROL/HANDLE CLIENT FILE BACKUP CONFIGURATION DIRECTLY FROM SERVER

- Develop function to integrate Operations Center with SP Server with the ability to configure and handle the client host backup remotely.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Add VM Backup Success Rate to GUI

The current "Success Rate" percentage shown in the GUI is misleading.It shows the success rate of jobs. Jobs include backup, restore, replication, inventory and maintenance jobs.If 1 job (with 5 VMs) fails and 1 job (with 500 VMs) succeeds, the su...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Support for VMware vCloud Director

When does IBM expect that Spectrum Protect Plus have support for VMware vCloud Director.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add the Persisent option for the practice FC (H3-I3 role pair) in CSM session.

The MM-GM with practice session is missing the Persistent option for the H3-I3 FC role pair (I suppose the other session with practice are missing the option too). This is useful if H3 volumes are space efficient, the FC relation should be persist...
10 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Needs more information