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Enhance policy handling to allow ordering of rules

I want to delete dirs and files in a subtree depending on their mtime. Using a policy file I can identify the files and dirs and order them by DIRECTORY_HASH to ensure the correct deletion order from deepest to highest paths. This works falwlessly...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

FlashSystem rails incompatible with 3rd party racks

Client / reseller reports issues with installation of current generation of IBM FlashSystem rack-mount rails within non-IBM racks. Previous generation Storwize rails (V3700 was mentioned) fit into the same racks without issue.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Not under consideration

Add hyperlinks from status icons on SPP Dashboard

When accessing the Dashboard the customer would like to have the summary sections at the top of the screen as hyperlinks.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Add JCL to IWNALLOC for SAMPLIB & ASAMPLIB

Please add JCL in the IWNALLOC.JCL file to include SAMPLIB and ASAMPLIB.
over 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Define VMWare backup order

I need a way to define the vm backup order within a DOMAIN.VMFULL list
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Planned for future release

CSM for z/OS - Active/Standby on different storage systems

We installed the standby CSM server on remote site on a different sysplex with different storage systems. All storage connections from the active CSM were synchronized to the standby CSM server. But the standby CSM server has no access to the stor...
about 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Adding role to resync Management Servers

We installed active and standby CSM server on z/OS. If one system IPLed, we implemented automation scripts that automatically resync the Management Servers after the CSM is started. With this Automation, we are able to IPL the system without the n...
about 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Incorporate Azure MFA

The MFA feature in the Flashsystem series requires one to setup either an IBM or a Duo Security solution which is costly and redundant as most companies today have Azure MFA at their disposal. So it would be very nice if the Flashsystem in the fut...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Functionality already exists

Better handling of fragments during backup storagepool

When copying data to a copy pool, all (or large parts of) the copied data can be rolled back, if some - but not all - fragments of a super-aggregate is among the copied data. This can happen if the backup storagepool process is deliberately stoppe...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Enhancements on Spectrum Scale Installation toolkit to support remote cluster configurations and updates

Currently there are a gap in this toolkit to define remote cluster configs. We know that the code are already available in the open source stuff but not in the offical release of the installer. It should be added to simplify the current manually s...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration