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Drop off state F-SYS after Basic Hyperswap

Hello Support, after loading the Basic Hyperswap configuration all secondary devices get state F-SYS. This state persists untill the next IPL. CSM has commands to Suspend PPRC-Pairs ("Stop") and to Delete PPRC-Pairs ("Terminate"). I expect another...
over 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 3 Future consideration

Azure Archive Tier Blob Tagging

Azure Archive tier is only usable by changing blobs after write. Archive blobs are not readable, but metadata is still there. It's very similar to HSM, with a recall delay of up to 15 hours. Archive tier has a very low storage cost, and is suitabl...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect: Integration of exfs -filesystem needed, minor changes to xfs, HPE will give assistance

IBM supports XFS as filesystem in IBM spectrum protect Linux-client. We were using this solution on our scientific-storage for several years now (Suse SLES 11 with HA and XFS (CXFS as well at our second company site) as filesystem on our disk-shel...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Protocol replication needs the ability to failover individual filesets for DR testing

Protocol replication has “all-or-nothing” failover/failback process. Cannot test DR for new exports. We need the ability to failover individual filesets for DR testing With “AFM-based DR” (which the protocols cluster DR is based on), and indeed fo...
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

AUDIT VOLUME command enhancement

One of the features of the current AUDIT VOLUME command is that while an audit process is active, clients cannot restore data from the specified volume or store new data to that volume. This can be a significant issue for audit volume processes th...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Automate process to deploy OS+drivers in protocol nodes

Today approach to deploy protocol nodes is to use xcat for protocol node OS+drivers and Toolkit for protocol node rpms. This request is to provide a supported automation to deploy OS+drivers for protocol nodes.
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Add path status in Overview Screen Page

In IBM Copy Service Manager It's possible add path status in Overview Screen Page?? We monitoring Overview page for potential issues of session, server connection, but we don't see path status, that is visible only in a specific screen
over 8 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

TDMF Message for SOFT FENCE

System: TDMF for z/OS Actor: User needing change in a message. TDMF (Transparent Data Migration Facility) is a product that allows the customer to non-disruptively relocate or migrate data within the data center, in periods of full production and ...
over 8 years ago in TDMF z/OS 3 Planned for future release

Mirrored volume Sync column added in Volume view of GUI

Allow the sync value of volume copies to be displayed in the volume view of the Storwize GUI. This information is available from the CLI command (lsvdiskcopy). Requesting to add this visibility from the GUI.
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Create new user group and role that can only Start/Stop Remote Support Assistance

Currently administrator or restricted administrator role is needed to start or stop a remote support access session. This does not meet our security requirements since this role can perform many other functions. We want a role that does only one t...
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Future consideration

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