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    Delete orphaned entries in DEDUPSTATS

    In Spectrum Protect there is a requirement to use the GENERATE DEDUPSTATS command to determine the deduplication performance on an individual node / filespace level. The DELETE DEDUPSTATS command is used to tidy up old entries. However, it will le...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Increase number of SVC Partnerships

    Increase the maximum number of SVC partnerships (current max is 4)
    almost 11 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

    Object Lock / Immutability with SP/P with Hitachi Cloud Scale

    In alignment with our Cyber Resiliency sales play many of our clients are looking at ways to utilise the assets they already have purchased to "sure up" their infrastructure. We know data management solutions are a target of internal and external ...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Enable object lock for internal DB backup and better retention management on Volhist

    With object lock being available on backup storage pools there is a requirement to ensure the internal DB2 database can also be protected to the same level and functionality. A check of the object metadata to ensure the lock has expired/no longer ...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Certification trust

    Trust certificates trusted by OS - get rid of own local cert db. If we replace certificate on SP-server it should just work, as long as it is a global trusted certificate.
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Spectrum Scale GPFS client running on z/OS

    Customer desires to speed up time to insights from their systems of record on z/OS.
    about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Consolidate multiple HW event messages affecting the same session in short time frame

    While running a secondary migration of GDPS managed GM or MM pairs, there is the step after running the Prepare for Secondary Migration was processed. This is where the external DR/CG solution should suspend the pairs before executing the Perform ...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

    zHyperlink performance monitoring

    Spectrum Control is a tool that customer use to manage their capacity, performance and other metrics of Storage environments. Although the Tool/Software have a lot of functions, I realized the zHyperlink performance monitoring aren't one of their ...
    almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 3 Future consideration

    High availability support for vsnap

    VSNAP and VADP proxy high availability (clustering ) support. We need to extend the clustering support already available for SPP server to VADP Proxies and Vsnap servers, in combination with HW storage sharing
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    Request for Product Qualification: DAR Encryption External Key Manager for Jack Henry

    Customer is migrating their enterprise to Fortanix DSM 4.23+. They are shutting down their existing EKM's. All data center assets need to utilize Fortanix DSM for centralized, separation of duties, EKM management. Jack Henry current DS8 systems: D...
    9 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

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