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    TDMF OPTION to Delay/Retry Quiesce/Swap until Concurrent Copy Completes

    This is a documented restriction in the TDMF for z/OS Installation and Reference manual chapter 5 section 'Extended functions'. however, it sounds as if you would like an ability to elongate the TDMF session until the concurrent copy sessions have...
    over 11 years ago in TDMF z/OS 4 Not under consideration

    Dynamic migation of the TSM DB and Log volumes from one OS volume to another.

    We need to migrate the TSM DB and log volume from one Os volume to another dynamically. WE have performed this activity in the previous version of TSM and it worked perfect. Seems like that capability is missing in the newer versions.. For Ex: I u...
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Autoscaling of Storage Fusion HCI hosts for IBM Cloud Satellite

    Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud Satellite supports autoscaling, however it’s limited to hosts already assigned to Cloud Satellite requiring pre-creation and allocation of host in Fusion to Cloud Satellite. In a Fusion HCI with multiple separate IBM...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

    Use Fusion master nodes as host for IBM Cloud Satellite master nodes

    If you currently use Fusion HCI as host platform for IBM Cloud Satellite you will use the Fusion HCI worker nodes. This results in a underutilization of the Fusion HCI Master nodes. By enabling the IBM Cloud Satellite location master nodes on the ...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Not under consideration

    Syslog encryption request for the IBM XIV arrays.

    Syslog Encryption request for the IBM XIV arrays. Secure log shipping for XIV arrays
    over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Able to do mmcallback to stop the GPFS event, exemple prevent to unmount filesystems if services are still running

    It would be nice to be able to configure a mmcallback in Spectrum Scale where the return code of the command run by the callback could stop the GPFS event. Actually, from the IBM documentation, GPFS can make 3 differents things in a mmcallback : -...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

    Windows Spectrum Protect Client no need of Backupoperator to backup Shares

    We use System Protect Client for Windows to backup/Archive files on our NAS from NetApp. But the System Protect Client for Windows needs to run with backupoperator rights. This is ok, if I am the only user. But a user with this right, has at least...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 1 Not under consideration

    Tools or self tune mechanisms for troubleshooting

    Customers would like to have tools that would allow them to analyze our diagnostic information so they could more quickly determine what was wrong with the system and try to correct it (i.e. Self tune based on the latency and throughput of the net...
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    SPP Enhanced VMs view. Colomns sorting.

    Enhanced the view of the VMs. Sorting by columns. Adding colums in the view so we can see options selected per VMS. Options per VMs in a reports also.
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Store SSL Certificate using name instead of IP on client dsmcert.kdb

    When connecting to a new Spectrum Protect server, certificate to the client dsmcert.kdb file is automatically added with a label of "ipaddress:port". This is problem with tunnel configuration where each Spectrum Protect server is associated to the...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

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