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Spectrum Protect Plus - Office365 support needed

Office 365 is for 4Q18/1H19 on roadmap, support needed in Q42018customer has Office 365 in place and need local backup, if Protect Plus will not be available in Q418 he will look at CommVault
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Delivered

mmbackup dry-run mode

The mmbackup command is intended for highly-scalable backups of IBM Spectrum Scale (SS) filesystems to one or more IBM Spectrum Protect (SP) servers using the SS policy engine to identify files and the SP client software to send them to SP. The co...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

SV PBR support for CSM

To push or force customers to move from Standard GM o GMCV to the new PBR where the CSM is exstesively implemented, it is mandatory that CSM will support the PBR as weel soon.
11 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

make applydrivesoftware site-aware

'applydrivesoftware' should honour site-awareness, in particular in HyperSwap topologies and change its default "all in one shot" behaviour to a "paced site by site" one.
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Add option to restrict email alerts to specific sessions

Please make it so that when configuring "Session State Change" alerts one can select specific sessions. In our shared environment, customers(or teams or applications) have emails configured to receive "Session state change". Currently though, all ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Delivered

HyperSwap and enhanced stretch cluster support with SGC in SCDM

To get application consistent (!) SGC in a high-available setup (FS or SVC), we need CDM to support such. Right now, CDM support HA without SGC!
almost 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

ESS Call Home - include monitoring and alerting for all components

Customer uses ESS in a data lake project and wants to make sure that all critical and or redundant components of a ESS System are monitored and reported via callhome in case of a failure. It is essentially that the full redundancy of the system is...
almost 5 years ago in ESS 1 Delivered

Utilise RACF PassTickets for Host Connections from CSM on DS8K HMC to z/OS system.

Current and only available method for Host connection from the CSM residing on the DS8K HMC to the z/OS system requires authentication via a normal RACF defined userid and password on z/OS. However, customer password expiration policies dictate a ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

SVC is not aware of AIX LPM-capable secondary WWPNs, causing all AIX LPM-capable LPARs always seen as Degraded

SVC is currently not capable of differentiating between primary/active and secondary/passive WWPNs of AIX LPM-capable LPARs, causing host objects always to be seen as Degraded. Every virtual fcs adapter of an LPAR has 2 WWPNs, of which one is onli...
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Enable partial scans of directories including subdirectories instead of whole shares

A scan in Spectrum Discover currently scans the whole share. Given the following example scenario: We have a large share with 100.000+ of files Some directories are rather static whereas other directories see daily or weekly changes In order to sp...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Discover 0 Delivered

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