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    z/VM support on CSM

    Currently z/VM support is managed only via GDPS using xDR proxies (SA MP). We are running lot of applications on zVM but the binaries for z/Linux on IBM disk is minimal and the application data is from a different storage hardware and only for the...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Parallelization/enhancement of pool migrations of individual large files

    When running migrations between different pools often it appears the tail latency of the ILM run is dictated by a small number of large files This seems to be due to the pool migration of any individual file being a single threaded activity that i...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

    Add all cloudpak's as Operator installs

    in the Fusion GUI, we have operator install of backup, datacatalog and Global Data Platform.Why not use this place to add all Cloudpak's as well, for easy deployment.First in line would be watsonx.data, watsonx.ai and wastonx.gov.
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

    Spectrum protect : restrict possible actions of a backup administrator on source data(prevent erasure)

    As the data privacy and security become a priority for our client, we need to improve Spectrum Protect product to enhance data privacy and security. The aim of this RFE is to find a way so that a backup administrator (responsible of managing backe...
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

    Add the ability to restart the CSM service from the GUI or API

    In some companies the CSM administrator does not have administrative control of the servers or instances that it runs on. There are times when a restart of the CSM service is required (certificate updates, server changes, etc). Being able to resta...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    TS7700 Feature License panel should have option to display by s/n and not by node

    Recently we noticed that a few features on the TS7700 were missing. The codes had been shipped but not installed. In trying to match up the feature codes that we did have installed we noticed that some of the feature codes are listed twice in the ...
    over 5 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Proof of Tape encryption

    Since IBM made the decision to remove encryption from TSM4VE backups, we were forced to enable physical tape encryption for client data. There is currently no means to verify that a physical volume has been encrypted. The only method within Spectr...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

    User specified encryption password for data when using TSM backend

    Add possibility to let user specify data encryption password when TSM server is being used as back-end - in order to ensure that data only can be restored by someone that knows the password.It should be possible to set the encryption password via ...
    almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack for Workstations 1 Not under consideration

    Improve "generate dedupstats" to run filespaces in node parallell

    When running generate dedupstats on a node with thousands of VM filespaces, it runs for weeks before it completes. These should kick off in separate processes so that it can be managed by the Maxprocesses value.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    IBM Spectrum virtulize should generate alert before rebuilding of a failed disk

    One of our customer have large infrastructure of IBM Storage deployed ,where IBM FS 840 /FS 900 / SVC / IBM V7000 / IBM FS 9150 / IBM FS 9200 installed across India. Although we have call home configured and working for all devices , fault like di...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

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