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    FlashCopy DUMPCONDITIONING

    CSM does not support a FlashCopy DUMPCONDITIONING session.
    over 8 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

    Shorten AFM/DR RPO Interval

    The current design is that minimal RPO interval is 60 minutes. That is too long and will loss of huge data. Customer expect to set it to 1-5 minutes. 1-5 minutes RPO interval is acceptable in most of scenarios and it can help us to catch up compet...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    NDMP Support for Dell FluidFS with Spectrum Protect

    The Dell FluidFS 8600 supports NDMP 2/3/4 and appears to work with Spectrum Protect backup/restore node. Please add this as a formally supported NDMP enabled device family.
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    add awk to restricted shell in spectrum virtualize

    please add awk to available commands in restricted shell on storwize / spectrum virtualize systems
    almost 6 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Scale (ESS) request for VMware SRA (Storage Replication Adapter)

    Require a VMware SRA (Storage Replication Adapter) to be developed for SCALE / ESS. Have an urgent requirements for a SAS Grid implementation that will be deployed across two locations. Scale AFM Async D/R replication will be used replicate data b...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Energy Saving = « EasyTier » + « Start and Stop » : Automatically Turning off/on the cold data storage

    The Idea for energy saving is to turning off the storage (Disk drive or SSD/FCM drive) where cold data is stored and just turning on this storage when data is requested. IBM EasyTier move cold data on slow drives and move hot data on fast drives. ...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

    HyperVFull backup command failing when guests not available

    HyperVFull backup command failing when guests not available. even though hyper-v guests not availabe backup command should returned return code ZERO instead of 12.
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

    Simplify addition of "ephemeral" native clients

    To add a client to a Spectrum Scale cluster requires that both the client node is booted and for the administrator to run administrative commands on an admin node. In a virtualised environment where clients are elasticly created, this is difficult...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    when the file name is longer then 255 character it does not get copied to the SMB share, in the future version we would like to see a error message, stating the file name is too long "

    when a file is not getting copied, end user dont have any clue that file has not been copied from the windows. An error message would tell them to make the file name shorter.
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Messages Without Message IDs

    A product family such as IBM Spectrum Protect has a great many components, each of which can have hundreds or even thousands of messages. With so many messages, the customer will need some method to find explanations. In general, many messages are...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

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