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    Add virtualmountpoint support for Spectrum Protect for Space Management on Spectrum Scale servers

    Please allow Spectrum Protect for Space Management in a Spectrum Scale environment to operate on virtualmountpoints. This means support in the following scenario: 1) A large Spectrum Scale file system is split into multiple smaller filesets. 2) Ea...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 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...
    about 10 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...
    about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Protect Snapshot support multiple DB2 databases within a single instance

    FEPOC owns Flashcopy Manager for DB2 and has performed a Proof of Concept (POC) and identified changes required to the current DB2 environment in order to implement flashcopy. A problem was identified in the POC based on CCTI's unique architecture...
    over 7 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

    Restrict FCM to manage the own source and target volumes (multi tenancy)

    Reference: Technical Exchange call with Mr. Uhl, Munz, Calvus 7/18/2013In a shared SAN-enviroment, security is very important for a service provider with multiple customers. We want to use FCM running on different operating systems in combination ...
    over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 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
    about 10 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

    support OS kernel for linux 5.10.135.x86_64

    support OS kernel for linux 5.10.135.x86_64
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under 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 ...
    about 10 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.
    about 10 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    FCM: Support disk partitions on Linux

    The customer requires support for disk partitions on Linux. Statement 2.0.10 of the FlashCopy Manager for UNIX and Linux prerequisites checklist explicitly excludes this support.
    over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

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