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Enable/disable EasyTier for a volume in the GUI

Currently the Easy Tier setting for a volume cannot be changed in the SVC GUI. A function should be added to the properties panel of a volume.
over 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Multiple data movers

Multiple data movers
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Enumerate VMs to be backed up

Enumerate VMs to be backed up
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

TSM for Space Management - file expiration

The current release of TSM for Space Management (Unix) has a migfileexpiration option that "Specifies the number of days a copy of a migrated or premigrated file remains in storage after it is modified on your local file system, or deleted from yo...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 3 Not under consideration

Support Metro Mirror (or better all Copy Services) for LUNs up to 16 TiB

Currently DS8880 officially supports Copy Services (Flashcopy and PPRC) for volumes up to 2 TiB.IBM can support volumes up to 4TiB replicated by Copy Services submitting a SCORE RPQ.But today big LUN's in Open environments, particularly in virtual...
over 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Exclude a Linux disk from TSM for VE backup

On Linux virtual machines, exclude disks from TSM/VE backups by their scsi number (e.g. scsi0, scsi1). TSM/VE can query Virtual Center, so it should know everything from that about each virtual machine and its disk(s).
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Make it possible to set Read permission for the secondary volume of the Metro Mirror in CKD format and enable permission of b

MUFG Bank, previously it was BTMU, is planning to improve fault tolerance in the zLinux DB environment, and for that reason Mirroring Contoroller which is the function of Fujitsu DB Symfoware Server plans to cope with server failure as well as sto...
over 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

vDisk Protection in a DTA Snapshot environment

With vdisk_protection_time and vdisk_protection_enabled, two parameters are provided in SVC and Storwize to prevent accidental deletion of a disc. Unfortunately, this function is unusable if additional products dynamically create and delete vDisk....
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Automatic Backup of DB when Active Log becomes full

when the Active Log become full the TSM Server Crashes. why not implement the same functionality as Archive Log ?? Archive Log when it reaches 80% a database backup is triggered to be able to reclaim space
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Parameterization of the port (2443 default) used by the Spectrum Control for the configuration of Hitachi storages

I have to integrate a hitachi VSP G700 and G900 storage in Spectrum Control, but I have a problem because the default port 2443 of the hitachi Command Suite when the client installed it changed to 443 and 2443 port is not available. The request is...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

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