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Provide connectivity from the CSM to the arrays when IP network is gone

In a worst case, Have the ability to perform a restore is the IP Network is unavailable. Have the ability to 'hardwire' a server running CSM to connect and communicate with the array to perform backup and restore.
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

TSSC level and patches available in 7700 MI

To simplify the retrieval and management of microcode levels and patches, provide the TSSC microcode and patch information in the Cluster Summary download file of the 7700 MI. This should be very similar to the 7700 microcode and VTD_EXEC level in...
almost 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Planned for future release

Possibility to define the NTP server address through the TS7700 MI by using administrator user (customer)

Currently the NTP server can be configured in the TS7700 cluster or GRID by the IBM SSR. The customer wants to be able to define the NTP server adress through the TS7700 Management Interface by using its administrator user.
almost 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Not under consideration

FlashSystem code and drive firmware upgrade

Join the code and firmware upgrade in one process with an option to complete the drive post of prior to the code upgrade is a good idea even where there are nothing to upgrade. Making the firmware is part of the code upgrade is something make the ...
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

FlashSystem GUI + FCM + SGC --> NO PHYSICAL CAPACITY INFO

In a FS config + FCM drives, working with CSM ans SGC (SafeGuarded Copies).Each SGC reserve 2% of LOGICALcapacity of source volume. But there is not possible to view PHYSICAL CAPACITY information after FCM compression. Virtualize GUI do not show r...
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

enhance for multi-session retrieve functionality

Multi-sessions is not enchanced in retrieve operations while it is for restore operations
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Monitoring Capabilities by adding new Performance-Metric

Our Load on Ganesha NFS drives the Services into stale conditions where manual interventions are required and possibly tuning measures needed. Currently there is no way to figure what Limits are hit within Ganesha and logging seems not to help a l...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect for VE backup report

We need IBM Spectrum Protect Operation Center to be able to generate a SP (TSM) for VE backup report on daily bases. We need this report to cover successful and failed SP (TSM) for VE backup jobs and to be able to automatically e-mail to our manag...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

GPFS command confliction list

Our client uses IBM Spectrum Scale for NAS. Scale has many GPFS commands which have "mm" prefix, and some commands conflict each other.We want to know the conflict list on KnowledgeCenter for their daily operation.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

TSM-VE : better handling of VM template backup

may I suggest to not report a VM template backup as failed as it is done now when the VMENABLETEMPLATEBACKUPS is specified in the datamover option file ? It dosen't make sens to raise Error when excpected behavior has occured. If I specify the opt...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration