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SCSI Unmap at thin SVC volumes: recalculate after Unmap operation the reported value of actual written capacity

If SCSI Unmap operations are executed at SVC thin provisioned volumes, then the SVC GUI reflects the related physical allocation reduction on a consistent way (please see column “Usable Capacity” in the “Pools” view of the SVC GUI). But the data v...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Support nested groups from Active Directory

Currently SPP does not supported nested Active Directory groups.Only direct group members are able to login. With a "nested" group member - so a member of a group under the added group doesn't work.Here's what I mean: Group 1 (added to SPP) <- ...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Waiting for Winodws 2019 Server support for Spectrum protect server and BA client

We need Windows server 2019 server support for the Spectrum protect for the TSM server installation and BA client as well
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

Support reversal of roles of replication servers which have Retention Sets

If you have retention sets on either a source or target replication server, you cannot reverse the roles of the replication servers; that is, you cannot make the source server the target server and vice versa. If you do so, data in retention sets ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

z/OS HyperSwap and Concurrent Copy

After a HyperSwap, the command "Start H2->H1" (Start H1->H2 respectively) will fail if there a active Concurrent Copy Sessions on secondaries (former primaries). CSM will show error IWNR2108E RC 0F13. We know IBM recommends to eliminate any ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Scale ECE - optimize the efficiency of swapd processing, and ensure consistency in file access

Current Issue: A directory A is created on GPFS Client 1. Then on Client 2, directory A is accessed and a subdirectory B is created inside it. If directory A is subsequently deleted and recreated on GPFS Client 1, attempting to create subdirectory...
about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

installation image for physical vSnap servers

IBM provides vsnap server OVAs für virtualized vsnap servers.In some customer situations it would be helpful to have also a fully supported installation image for physical vsnap servers including update images.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

Oracle dataguard support

We are changing our environment to separate failure domains across data center. To be safe but nearly synchronous our Oracle database will be (nearly) synchronized by Oracle dataguard based on Oracle ExaCC.To continue the backup solution with the ...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

"Cancel Process all" command in Spectrum protect

Would be great if "cancel process all" command in TSM/Spectrum Protect is introduced.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

TS7700 improve cloude connection on dedicated NIC

Currently to implement Cloud connection from FS7700 to any cloud provider the same NIC used for grid replication is used. To improve performances it is helpful to have a dedicated connectivity with additional NIC within VED
over 1 year ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Planned for future release