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Support Windows 2019 on the SP B/A client

More and more customers are asking about when we will support Windows Server 2019 to be able to install the B/A client.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Planned for future release

CSM support for cascaded 4-site replication

Our 4-site environment is a cascaded replication from A-B-C-D where A-B is metro mirror, B-C is a Global mirror, C-D is a global copy. I see in CSM 6.2.6, there is a 4-site support added but it is a MMGMGCreplication., which is A-B (MM), A-C (GM),...
over 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 4 Future consideration

Releasing space in DB

There is a manual method to Releasing space in DB2 9.7 table spaces. (Online Reorg)Run analyze_DB2_formulas.pl data.And run db2 alter tablespace for tables that can free desirable space (from output of above perl script).This step could be embedde...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Fusion Data Foundation Regional DR support for CP4BA

A lot of customers are already on CP4BA on OpenShift, and using FDF as their storage solution. There is a need for a Disaster Recovery solution using Fusion Data Foundation Regional DR, and to be tested with CP4BA especially these capabilities: BA...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

LI REQ Commands to display Network Port Information

The current LI REQ,xxxxx,STATUS,RDP,FxPyz is a great command and useful for FICON port connectivity. Would this command be able to expand for all Network connections as well? For example on a DS8000 DCLI command I can view all IOPORTS, NETWORKPORT...
almost 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Planned for future release

GPFS Client/Server Capable of AIX Live Update Function

Enhance GPFS code base to allow for a AIX 7.2 GPFS Client/Server to be capable of the AIX Live Update Function.
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Disable E-mail (and other) notifications temporarily

We are using a Notification alerting on CSM and it works well, however we would like to have a possibility of temporarily suppressing it when one does planned activity like increasing volume size (it requires breaking the mirroring, removing copy ...
11 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

1500 character limit for SQL statements in dsmadmc

Currently there is a limit that commands im dsmadmc can't be longer than 1500 characters else error ANS8028E will be raised.For most commands this limit is fine but for Spectrum Protect server scripts with complex SQL statements this is a real str...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 50 Future consideration

Add support for wide links in protocol nodes/mmsmb

wide links is a parameter supported by SMB exports configuration. But currently it is not possible to specify it when adding a new smb share with the "mmsmb export add" command.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

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