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    For V7000 and SVC create an automated report for the status of Global Mirror sessions

    Create a global mirroring report providing the status of V7000 and SVC Global mirroring that can be automatically run daily and sent via email to end users. Should contain the following (at a minimum)CG_Name Active Connnected CurrentDate/Time Last...
    almost 8 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Extend "deactivate data" to other applications, not only limited to Oracle

    Currently, the "deactivate data" command is limited to Oracle data. It should be expanded to include the other application data such as DB2, SQL, etc. Also add the filespace option to the command.
    almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Pick a backup to offload in a cloud object storage or SP as archive

    Hello support, I would like to know if it is possible to pick a backup that i want to offload in a cloud object storage or SP.We can define a SLA to to it as a politic. But the goal is to do it in onetime. example:do an incremental backup every da...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Future consideration

    Tivoli Fastback for windows 2012 and exchange 2013

    System: Tivoli Fastback for exchangeActor: Deploy new version The client for Exchange in Exchange 2013 doesn't work.
    almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack for Microsoft Exchange 2 Not under consideration

    Modification of smb.conf to prevent vulnerability

    The customer has to set 'server signing=mandatory' in smb.conf to prevent vulnerability.https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/887429http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731957.aspxhttp://www.nessus.org/u?74b80723http://www.samba.org/samba...
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Spectrum CDM Support for CSV with SQL

    Request if for support SQL Servers configured with Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV). With Copy Data Management
    almost 8 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    OSSM Proxy on the same server as SP OSSM Server

    currently on VSNAP servers we have the ability to also run the vadp proxy on the same server. with OSSM this is not possible. we need to have separate proxies as using the SP OSSM server as a OSSM proxy doesnt work. having separate vm proxies requ...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    No Copy option on Metro Mirror w/P session

    In DS8K environments using ESE volumes we would like to have the No Copy option for Metro Mirror with practice sessions as already available on GM w/P session type.
    almost 8 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    SVC planned maintenance for vdisk mirror

    My customer is planning to use SVC stretched cluster as a high available solution for the two data centers that are located close to each other (less than 1 km distance). They are asking for a function to "suspend" the vdisk mirror on one side wit...
    almost 14 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

    ESS support RoCE lossy Network

    ESS support RoCE over lossless setting by adapter and switch. But lossless network will limit the overall cluster size. We need ESS to support RoCE Lossy network. As we known, The full IB network has the best performance, followed by RoCE, and the...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

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