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Lift the limit that one filespace can only have one node replication session

I got more than 50 filespaces, some of these filespaces are filled with PB-level file data. To replicate one of the PB-level filespaces on LTO-8 tapes, will take more than one month. 1PB=1024*1024*1024 MB LTO-8 Drive read/write speed: 360MB/s 1024...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

Adding Compute Express Link CXL 3.0 or CXL 4.0 to the IBM DS8000

The future of DS8000 for IBM Z and LinuxONE will need to add Compute Express Link CXL 3.0 or CXL 4.0 interface to the DS8000 to satisfy the needs of the AI Data centers. Please, refer to the other complementary idea "Adding Compute Express Link CX...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Schedule Force Base Resources (full backup)

Possibilities to Schedule full backups in a SLA. Like, over a month VM makes a full backup randomly every night spread over the time you set.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Allow filespace deletion for non-replicated nodes without blocking replication stgrule execution

Currently, a replication storage rule fails when a delete filespace is already running. The following messages is issued: ANR1079E Storage rule REPLICATION did not start a tiering process because a DELETE FILESPACE operation is in progress. I can ...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Improvement of usability by implementing a HOST command in dsmadmc

By using a HOST command or special character, commands can be issued at operating system level and you do not have to log out of dsmadmc.
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Add non root access to ESS nodes with AD authentication

This RFE is to request the ability for adding non-root user ids to the ESS systems with authentication such as external AD. The current options are: 1) sudo wrappers using the following procedure on page 80 : https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgec...
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Future consideration

Disable Simultaneous sessions of same user on ESS GUI

Same user is able to open multiple sessions on ESS GUI with different browsers /different system. Ideally, the application should allow only one active session per user. This is one of the security observations from the customer's security auditor...
10 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

Extension of the Table "Replicationview" by the columns batchesQ and batchesD

Hello, the command "show replication" shows the number of "batchesQ" and "batchesD".Is it planned to implement the number of "batchesQ" and "batchesD" in the table REPLICATIONVIEW?Currently I can't find any columns in this table regarding this. En...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Under review

Understanding of spectrum Discover tables

As part of the use of CP4D it is important for Airbus to know the exact use of each of the tables that we could or should 'integrate' or not into CP4D/Cognos for example. This request aims to identify, for example, tables presenting data that has ...
10 months ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

Flashcopy Mgr to support multiple storages of same kind

Flashcopy Mgr currently dont support to take snapshots from multiple storages. We would like it to be able to take snapshots from more than one storage device. The XIV product is supporting cross-consistency groups, meaning that you can have volum...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration