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Support for up to 8 IO Group Systems

Seeking support for up to 8 SVC IO groups, 16 nodes in total.
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

CSM To have options in GUI to export and import Web Certificates

Requesting there to be functionality within the CSM application in order to export and import the web certificates used by the CSM web GUI. I had raised the mentioned PMR to inquire about the process as it was not included in the documentation I c...
about 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

TS7700 - Surface NTP server usage via TS7700 Management Interface

Wells Fargo has requested that the TS7700 provide a method via the Management Interface that allows them to validate they the Ts7700 is utilizing a NTP server and what the IP address is for that NTP server. NTP is currently activated by the SSR vi...
over 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

mmchconfig maxblocksize is not dynamically changeable

PMR TS001057386.Spectrum Scale in Version 5 has a new maxblocksize default. But to Change these for old Clusters all Daemon must be down to change these parameter. The request here mmchconfig maxblocksize should be dynamicaly changeable without co...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Restore Functionality - Enable the recovery of VMs as an orchestrated group

Enable the recovery of VMs as a group i.e. Consistency Group or restore group for orchestration What is meant here is the ability to recover VMs in a ordered or orchestrated fashion i.e. I have 3 servers to recover an AD server, a SQL server and a...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus VADP proxy transport modes reset during code updates

During code updates, VADP proxy transport modes get reset to default - SAN, Hot-Add, NBDSSL and NBD
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Is a defect

Spectrum Scale can't prioritize small I/O over Serial data block

Spectrum Scale can't prioritize small I/O over Serial data block. A data transfer being done by one customer does work fast but the other user can't even ls specifics directories.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Provide TSM Client for Ubuntu s390x zLinux

Please provide a TSM Client (Spectrum Protect Client) installer for Ubuntu on s390x
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

DS8910F the names of the download files should be customized. As a customer, for example, we would like to have our location

DS8910F .the names of the download files should be customized. As a customer, for example, we would like to have our location designation included in the file name.This is important for regulatory reasons.
over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

IBM Backup, Recovery and Media Services (BRMS) for i and Tivoli Storage Manager for IBM i

I've a client in Moçambique that would like to back an Exictos-Promosoft Financial Suite on an IBM iSeries box (aka AS400's) using TSM V7.1 or later. Could you let me know if this is possible and how the client can do this. The client also has oth...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

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