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    Free space on Flash Copy target devices after a Terminate command

    A FC no-copy relation only copies data if the source has been changed (new data has been written). If the primary device has been fully updated all tracks have been copied to the target device and thoses devices are no more in a FC relationship. W...
    10 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Task import/export feature

    It will be helpful to have the ability to export and import schedule tasks. This will facilitate the creation of schedules as well as the ability to copy them to different servers. Currently creating multiple, complex multi task schedule is time c...
    3 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Per host PWWN data collection for IBM storage insights from IBM Storage Vritualise

    The customer has a cluster of 5 hosts which uses a collection of 10 LUNS to get the production environment. When we see storage insights, the data collected is from the volumes in the storage and populated on the console. There's no data collected...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Enable for storage pool utilizations three different threshold limits, which can set at the same time

    Hello IBM-team,can you please enable for SVC storage pool utilizations three different threshold limits, which can set at the same time ?The goal is: generate warning events at three different storage pool utilization levels, which can individuall...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Future consideration

    change tape read/write throughput rates

    Testing of Tapeoperations (move data) and got a throughput of only 120 MB/s to 140 MB/s with LTO7 tapedrives - in a Situation where nothing else happened
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Add a dedicated time frame for media verification function

    We would like to define a dedicated time frame in the media verification function so that this verification function is not active during daily backups. This will allow you to unassign the tape drives to this verification function and assign them ...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 3 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Archive batch selective_recall tasks should utilize duplicate tapes if primary copy is on invalid tape

    Our archive system is set to write files to two tape pools for redundancy (and offsiting). Sometimes we will have a recall where tape 1 copy (set a) is on a tape that needs to go thru validation or has some other reason to not be considered valid....
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Is a defect

    Ability to rename a snapshot (local or HA)

    Use case: currently snapshots are created with automatically generated names that are very random, with a string of numbers that are meaningless to the customer. Cu will sometimes take individual snapshots via the GUI, as a backup before a major a...
    10 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Under review

    PBHA/R limit: how much in use?

    There is a limit of 4096 TiB for HA or 2048 TiB for 3-site HA+async. It is not easy for a user to see how much can be added before that limit is reached . Can we provide this in GUI (or CLI). This limit is in terms of the total virtual capacity of...
    10 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    data tiering of block (ranges ) within a file

    A file needs to be able to be located partially on multiple storage TIERs, depending on various specific conditions like policy rules, selectable by ranges in Bytes or #blocks, rules for file names etc..The goal is that data within one single file...
    10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

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