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Extend valid settings for option "etfcmoverallocationmax" on mk|chmdiskgrp commands and its applicability in general.

Currently the option "etfcmoverallocationmax" offers four valid settings "100,200,300,400" to set the maximum over-allocation which Easy Tier can migrate onto FCM arrays, when the array is used as the top tier in a multi-tier pool. It currently wo...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Support adding space by extending existing luns to vSnap server

vSnap server should be able to have it storage luns extended. Typically, we would make 4 luns of 4 Tb each available to a vSnap server. When it needs to be extended, we just increase the existing luns by 1 or 2 Tb each.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Redesign DELETE FILESPACE for reduced log pinning and active log utilization

DELETE FILESPACE pins the DB2 active log st the start, and considers the entire deletion one transaction. This is not how ingested data is handled. Because of this disparity, it is possible to receive a large object, such as an NDMP backup, which ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Is a defect

Report FE capacity for DB2 databases in OC

We want to see the "Capacity Used" values for DB2 databases in the "License Estimation" of the Spectrum Protect Operation Center.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

Reporting capacity in a clustered environment is challenge.

Today we have an option to select several hosts and click merge host but this is a timing consuming, manual process in a large shop. We need a better option to recognize hosts that are in a clustered relationship. Looking at hosts that can see the...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Dependent snapshots support (with excluding filters for independent snapshots)

For filesystems with large ramifications into independent filesets and then several thousands of dependent filesets, it sometimes becomes cumbersome to manage snapshots at the independent fileset level. Allowing also the ability to do the other wa...
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

TSM_Daily_Operations_Report not showing daily logical backup size

TSM_Daily_Operations_Report not showing daily logical backup size on TSM Operation Report. on page nameData Protection CLIENT BACKUPS WITH THE MOST DATA Over the past 24 hSize0.0 B
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Use the logged on User ID from the CSM GUI for authority checking rather than the STC user from the CSM Server

If an update is made from the (e.g.) portpairing.csv from the CSM Web Interface (Version 6.2.8) there is no security checking whether if this user has the necessary permission to update this file. The update will be with the STC User from the CSM ...
about 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 6 Not under consideration

Add GRID REQUEST Licenced volser Information to the LI REQ command

Add GRID REQUEST API output to the LI REQ,libname,GRID,REQUEST command so that we can fetch the licences volsers information from z/OS HOST itself.
7 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Needs more information

Option to disable security notifications

We need an option to disable "security notifications" entirely.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration