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XS & XXS blueprint confguration for ISP

One of our customer is planning to migrate his ISP (8.1.16) to a new HW with latest ISP version. Customer's existing setup is quite small & was implemented as per blueprint guidelines. His current Db size is 110GB with container pools size of ...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Allow CSM ports on z/OS to BIND to specific VIPA

Copy Services Manager has multiple listening ports. By default on z/OS it listens on ALL VIPA addresses defined on the system. This causes audit failures from TCPIP security scans. We would like to be to specify in xml or properties file the VIPA ...
about 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

TS7700 and IBM Security QRadar support

From level R5.1 (8.51.0.63), the name of the sender of the logs visible in the IBM Security QRadar software is for example :- LinuxServer @ 00323_78-H9952_ (example of TS7700 unit with the serial number of the 3957-VEx server) - LinuxServer @ Adre...
over 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Control and TS7700 (VTS)

Today, customer is managing around thirty TS7700 units. He does not have the possibility to easily check the configuration on each one to be sure that the configuration corresponds to their need. Also, in case of problem, it's very time consuming ...
over 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Planned for future release

expandvdisksize include a -finalsize instead of -size

RFE for expanding an FS900 volume via the CLI (doesn't allow New Total, Grow by, or Current Size) like GUI does. Ask them to allow "New Total" parameter NEW_SIZE instead of EXPAND_BY
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Make Spectrum Protect Plus IPv6 compliant

Spectrum Protect Plus only works with IPv4.If only IPv6 is enabled than SPP is not working (loses connection to his VDAP storage by example).So can you make SPP IPv6 compliant.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

CSM FCM show incorrect CylinderCount on EAVs with more than 999999 Cyl

CSM FCM (FlashCopyManager) does not show the correct Cylinder count in case of using EAV Volumes with more than 999,999 Cyls. FCM truncates first digit For me this is a defect and should be solved on PMR basis. IBM told me to open RFE.I hope, this...
over 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus - Initial config

Initial config does not state that ethernet requires access to vmkernel network. A quick test during config can fix this. Otherwise you need to add a nic, find cli user/password and manually config the new nic. Best practice is to have one mgmt ni...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

change of MgmtClass in VTS 7760 should automatically activate CopyExport without z/OS mount required

We were implementing CopyExport with VTS7760 and deceided to take over all tape datasets in our VTS (~68000) to CopyExport Volumes (all Tape data ever produced). For that the ManagementClass of each tape must be changed to a MC which is using Copy...
9 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Not under consideration

Add read MB/s metric for Vc and Vcc

The original IDEA/RFE was this one "Add support for stage/destage metrics in MB/s" https://ibm-sys-storage.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/SSI-I-51 Destage metrics were added (Fast-Write Writes Vc and Vcc), but stage/read MB/s metrics were not added for Vc an...
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

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