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Drop off state F-SYS after Basic Hyperswap

Hello Support, after loading the Basic Hyperswap configuration all secondary devices get state F-SYS. This state persists untill the next IPL. CSM has commands to Suspend PPRC-Pairs ("Stop") and to Delete PPRC-Pairs ("Terminate"). I expect another...
about 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 3 Future consideration

Add path status in Overview Screen Page

In IBM Copy Service Manager It's possible add path status in Overview Screen Page?? We monitoring Overview page for potential issues of session, server connection, but we don't see path status, that is visible only in a specific screen
over 8 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

Export Library Activity from GUI and REST API

Talked with Jason Peipelman and IBM RAS engineer about this request and they all agreed this is a good idea, not just this product but all library products. This Library Activity is visible on GUI, but customer would like to download this informat...
about 2 years ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

Implement recommission* node in OC

Missing the possibility to recommission a node or vm with the OC. Only the command decommission is available.
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 3 Future consideration

SCDM On IBM Spectrum Virtualize can not do FC/GM Workflow

when crating an SLA selecting Spectrum Virtualize, can not doa FC then GM workflow, this is fully supported by the storage
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SCDM 3-site replication target support

on FS storage when a 3-site replication is setup, SCDM can not do any action on the 3-site replication target volume
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Journal Based Backup Identification

Request is to be able to identify nodes using journal based backups from a query to the Spectrum Protect Server
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

CSM estimated completion time via CSMCLI.

1. CSM estimated completion time via CSMCLI Of Flash Copy Command Hi, We would like to have a report generated with CSMCLI Command who will give the completion of the FlashCopy Ce can see dynamically the completion with GUI.But if we want to follo...
over 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Please Expand the Maximum value for HSMMAXRECALLTAPEDRIVES

The maximum value for HSMMAXRECALLTAPEDRIVES is too low to use. I wish the maximum value can be set up to 128.
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Future consideration

Parallelise mmgetpdisktopology checks

In a recent install carried out by an IBM engineer several steps repeately invoked mmgetpdisktopology to check drive attributes. This queries each drive one by one which each drive query taking around just over a second. These were seen in the for...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

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