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Report and Update Quota's better

Spectrum Scale has commands of mmlsquota, mmedquota, mmrepquota and mmsetquota to update and control quotas. It would be helpful to be able to copy quotas between users, filesets and groups in a flexable fasion, both within the same filesystem (wh...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Administracion DS8K interactividad entre GUI y CLI

El cliente tiene la necesidad de interactuar entre comando de linea CLI y interfaz grafica GUI, tanto via software de la cambia como via CSM. Se solicita que la cabina autorefresque cada cierto tiempo para que los cambios realizados via CLI se vea...
over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

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

User set replication bandwidth allocation per IO group

Today SVC allocate a equal share of the partnership bandwidth to all IOGRP in a cluster.This RFE is to allow a user to set a different share (percent) of the overall bandwidth to different IOGRP
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Improving offload hardware requirement efficiency

Hi, Currently, when an SPP customer would like to have a copy on tapes, he has 2 alternatives:1. copy mode - to have additional storage space in the ISP server (as directory container) to allow incremental copies. that requires twice the capacity ...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

BVIR maintenance integrated in zOS

BVIR delivers very good Reports, but is maintained outside of zOS. The Tapetools have to be downloaded, unpacked, installed, the already used JCL has to be checked for changes. The TS7700 is maintained with PTFs instead, as it is usual in zOS.
about 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

SPP - restart a job for one VM in Sla

we need to restart a backup job for one VM (if errors during last sla jobs)
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Support for Domino Protect for Mail (TDP) for Ubuntu

Domino is supported on a range of Linux operating-systems. But this requires also backup solutions to be available for those Linux platforms. Domino on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is getting more and more attraction and should be supported b TDP.
10 months ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 0 Under review

Add Broadcom SAS 3808/3908 HBAs in Scale ECE

One of OEM partners are planning to replace existing SAS 3108 HBA with SAS 3808/3908 HBAs. But we didn't find SAS 3808/3908 HBAs in the support list of ECE 5.1.9. The partner hope IBM can support SAS 3808/3908 HBAs in the next release. They can pr...
10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect for VE - "Wrong" Platform Name for Node using SP BA Client on Datamover server

When we use Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environment to back VMWare Virtual Machines we have "Spectrum Protect for VE" and "Spectrum Protect BA client" installed on the same machine. To backup VMs we create Data Mover node name DATAMOVER_NAME . Th...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

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