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    Able to monitor and set maintenance mode on external services such as GKLM servers or other dependencies in GPFS GUI and via CLI/REST-API.

    If you have two or more GKLM servers connected to your IBM Storage Scale cluster there is no way to via GPFS GUI disable warnings from GKLM servers (At least not in a user friendly way that I know about) . So when you do maintenance on one of your...
    10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

    TS7700 Set LVOL to non used state for removing a TMC range

    The customer wants a way to set a volser or a range of volsers to a state that will prevent the tape from being mounted as a scratch in preparation to remove the volser or range of volsers from the TMC.
    over 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Planned for future release

    more granular scheduling in Spectrum Protect OC Reports

    The OC accepts only scheduled reports for daily or weekly. No Day of week or month nor time could be selected separately for each configured report.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

    IBM SVC Port Intelligence

    One of the IBM SVC port had errors (numbers loss of frames, buffer credits, link loss event). This caused one of the disk on windows server 2016 to go offline. THe request is to built an intelligence in SVC product itself to disable the port if th...
    about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Expire individual backups in Spectrum Protect Plus

    Expire individual host/application backups assigned to SLA policy
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    Call home via non-config node during SVC cluster crash

    Closing complaint AB6210 for Geodis SVC cluster crash, it has been identified that during the crash of the whole SVC cluster, no call home have been sent.
    over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    SPP - Have tha ability to move data off of one vsnap to another.

    Customer has asked for a way to do two items: 1) Recover from the loss of a vsnap server where the storage is still viable if mounted to another vsnap server. 2) As needed move data off of one vsnap server to another vsnap server.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Only Report Status on Relevant Paths from Storage Systems Panel

    In our environment, we have IP to z/OS connectivity enabled. As such, we have ZOS:NATIVE connections and IP to z/OS connections to other LPARs. For the ZOS:NATIVE connections, it is not possible for the Standby server to connect via FICON to the s...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Create backupset from directory container stgpool

    Directory containers give much better performance compared to the "old" version of dedup, but it makes it impossible to create Backupsets (and export) which several of my customers are using to get an annual backup offsite
    about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

    S3 to Tape

    Provide a mechanism to flush out/tier older objects at bucket level from COS to tape ideally while preserving some kind of object level reference in the source bucket not having to rely on data movement at the application layer or leverage the COS...
    almost 3 years ago in Cloud Object Storage Ready Nodes 1 Submitted

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