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CSM concurrent Global Mirror point-in-time copies

We run with 4 Global Mirror failover/failback w/practice sessions that use the same Consistency Group hw session ID (0x3) and we would like to be able to perform the 'flash' point-in-time copies for all 4 sessions concurrently.
over 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Switch management

When we deliver switches with the ESS, it's a pain that these don't come with management configured. Getting the hw technician to connect to a serial port to do initial configuration, and then connect it to a network is very cumbersome.. especiall...
over 3 years ago in ESS 0 Future consideration

Copy Data Management Support for IRIS 2020

Dear IBMer/Catalogic, I hope everything is well. Urgent request. US Hospital requesting IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management to support EPIC IRIS 2020 on AIX asap. WSC has EPIC IRIS 2020 up and running ready for testing. Requesting Catalogic developm...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Future consideration

CSM consistency group data exposure at volume level

CSM does not report ( at the volume level ) any Global Mirror long data exposure to complete a consistency group.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Enhanced security for admin access to Protect

Administrative access to Spectrum Protect (including but not limited to the WebUI) has a weak security model.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Future consideration

CSM Session Overview List - Sort by Name

Suggestion when discussing CSM with Jack Henry. Back with TPC-R we were used to having the Session List displayed first by Status, and then sorted by Session name. So, the active sessions are at the top, and the remaining sessions are sorted by na...
about 7 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Allow vendors to develop snapshot provider for *nix Spectrum Protect Snapshot

Allow PaaS providers to exploit Spectrum Protect Snapshot by providing a device adapter to interface SPS with with their platform's proprietary storage layer.
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Add Support FlashCopy Backup and Clone Presets

The FlashCopy function in Spectrum Virtualize offers backup and clone functions that SCDM currently doesnt support it would be great to have the ability to create SLAs supporting FlashCopy backup and clone in SCDM to add to FlashCopy NoCopy and Fl...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Control with DFSMS Storage Group Awareness

Request for Thin Provisioning Monitoring Interface that can report based on DFSMS (Storage Group). Please refer to RFE 137862 for additional detail.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Future consideration

Synchronize policy information to another SP server

There is a Spectrum Protect environment with 2 Spectrum Protect servers. Server A is the primary server to which the SP clients connect to, which stores alll SP client data in first place, and on which all SP client node information, associations ...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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