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    Add aborted command/transfer metrics to SI

    Spec V systems don't incorporate response time metrics into the performance stats for IOs that were aborted. The hosts would have actually been impacted by these IOs because IOs are typically aborted once they have hit some kind of timeout value. ...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Sync and Async DR for External/Remote Scale (Global Data Platform)

    This feature request is to add sync(metro) and async(regional) DR support for Fusion software with remote scale (global data platform) storage.
    over 3 years ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

    Need a way to move clients between vsnap servers to load balance use of vsnaps

    Customer would like the ability to move clients from one vsnap to another to help balance the use of the vsnap servers in their environment.
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect Plus support for MS SQL filestream mode

    Bosch is requesting Spectrum Protect Plus (SPP) support for Microsoft (MS) SQL filestream mode. SPP should support full and incremental backups and restores of MS SQL databases running in filestream mode.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Provide more details for Mail alert notifications for messages such as, IWNR1963W One or more logical paths between storage systems have entered an error state or have been removed.

    These alert notifications did not have any information regarding what paths and for which storage subsystems were affected during the path loss. When the CSM console logs were checked there were also no messages for this event and all paths were g...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Interoperability with Sangfor virtualization

    Hi I have a customer here in PH already using FS 5300 and being used by sangfor. Now i’m proposing FS 5600. Attached to a sanfor virtualization. How come my fpq got rejected.
    5 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    RENAME DEVCLASS

    We have to rename some tape based DEVICE CLASSES for organizational reasons.Unfortunately, there is no RENAME DEVCLASS command defined. The DEVICE CLASSES mentioned have storage pools with large amounts of archive data (many PB)with expiration tim...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Glacier like Object Storage teiring in Tape. With compatibility with S3 API/Policies

    A growing trend I ha e noticed in my domain is data ownership and residency. However, costs exponentially rise as data has grown due to a lack of understanding of what data is being stored (partially due o GDPR which protects against data being vi...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

    seems deleting data from TSM trough TDP exchange client/console is allowed, even if on TSM node deleting backups and deleting archive is set to ‘NO’

    Hi! We had an open point/call with IBM , seems deleting data from TSM trough TDP exchange client/console is allowed, even if on TSM node deleting backups and deleting archive is set to ‘NO’ My suggestion is to add some features to block this becau...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Future consideration

    Add Nutanix Acropolis AHV as supported SPP Hypervisor

    Please add Nutanix Acropolis AHV hypervisor to the supported Spectrum Protect Plus hypervisors.
    about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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