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    Spectrum Data Copy Management should be able to skip client cleanup

    It should be possible to cancel an active restore to a target without CDM cleaning up the target system. This could be a check box to indicate that the admin is responsible for manual cleanup before initiating the cancel.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    TSM for VE add information to better estimate meta data size

    The current existing information in version 6.4 given by the command 'dsmc query VM <vmname> -detail' gives some details about the VM guest backups like : number of objects making up the backup, fragmentation, etc. but there is no easy way t...
    almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

    Increase RUNSTATSCHKINTERVAL time

    I would like to suggest that you increase the time for RUNSTATSCHKINTERVAL. Today this option is at 10 minutes. I feel this option should be minimum at 90 minutes. Also document this option better, it's use, why it's needed even though DB2 does au...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    Planned deletion like rmmdisk of mdisks before removing them from SVC cluster

    It would be very helpfull te prevent unwanted alerts and events when removing mdisks from a SVC cluster. Currently, when removing mdisks from a cluster, you make sure the mdisks are unmanaged, then you de-provision them from the back-end array, wh...
    almost 13 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

    TS7700 Key Server Lost Communication Resiliency

    CBR3750I Message from library XXXVL00: OP0440 The virtual tape 660library lost communications with the alternate Encryption Key Server.. When communication is lost to an ISKLM key server due to planned maintenance to the ISKLM server, OAM broadcas...
    over 8 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    TwoFactorAuthentication for OC

    We would like to use two factor authentication with smart cards to log in to our Operations Center in order to enhance security
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Scale (ESS) request for SMI-S CIM Agent for 3rd party SRM monitoring support

    Require an SMI-S CIM Agent to be developed for SCALE / ESS to allow 3rd party SRM tool discovery and support (NetApp OnCommand, SolarWinds....etc) for capacity and performance monitoring. It is understood that Spectrum Control can be used with the...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Need approved process to create new secondary for protocol cluster AFM-based DR

    With AFM-based DR, I am familiar with the process for creating a new secondary when the original secondary is lost (mmafmctl <filesystem> changeSecondary). What is the process for creating a new secondary when mmcesdr is being used to manage...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Need a configurable timeout value for IBM Spectrum Scale replication

    When a V7000 disk failure occured, whole RAID5 array couldn't complete I/O request from AIX OS at all, for about 100 seconds.After 100 seconds, the failed drive was removed from the array, then V7000 returned to normal operation and responded to A...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    "Autoexpand" option for THIN and Compressed volumes on SVC

    We are currently using IBM SVC v7.5.x and v7.6.x. We found that while creating THIN or Compressed volumes using GUI, option "Automatically Expand" option is enabled by default, however while creating THIN and Compressed volumes using CLI, we need ...
    almost 9 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

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