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Web GUI refresh

Customer is clicking on a drive to monitor drive status. Due to automatic web GUI refresh, previously marked drive is moving up or down in drive list (depending on previously sort selection). But this is annoying from customer point of view: Previ...
over 4 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Is a defect

more volumes on DS8000

Currently, only 65280 volumes are possible in DS8000, due to the LSS/LCU concept. When in a FlashCopy relation, this is cut in half practically.Increase this somehow so that well more (e.g. over 200,000) volumes are possible.
about 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

SpVirt installation automation

The goal is to automate the initial installation wizard, to make the installation of tens of the same systems easier (use case = 60 FS5035s) Currently you have to first enter an IP address via the Technical Port. Having to enter that IP manually w...
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Migration process hang waiting volumes in use

Storagepools with file type devclass are used on a large scale in this client. the problem occurs when the migration process starts and some session has a mounted .bfs file (backup or restore). The migration process remains stuck until the session...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Candidate selection for sparenodes in standard stretched clusters

Add functionality to be able to specify what nodes a spare node is protecting in "standard" topology, either through the use of site_id or manually entered properties on the nodes. Site id's are used when selecting spare node when running "stretch...
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

LDAP Group Authorization for ADMIN users

IBM Storage Protect is actually the only product in our environment that is not allowing to map LDAP groups to specific authorization levels. How should this work?You would for example define on the SP server in dsmserv.opt the LDAP url including ...
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Hyperswap - estimator showing time running with failed communication

It would be nice to have command showing estimated time based on current and historical data transfer for which communication between sites can be broken till free space would be exhaused.
11 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

export/import backupset volhist and ToC pool

If replication is used to migrate data from one SP server to another SP server, information about backupsets (and exports) in volhist is not sent over to the new server.make export server able to export server filedata=backupsetand export server f...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Allow Target Server to be specified on Replicate Node

Allow the the target replication server to be specified on the replicate node command. In addition, document the DOMAIN option on replicate node in online and admin quide.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Prevent Web B/A client file level restore port conflict with WAS ports

Customer identified during the Spectrum Protect web client implementation that its ports (9081) conflicts directly with WAS (Websphere Application Server) ports that's is being in use by their banking online production applications. Thus this beha...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

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