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We need the ability to convert a Thin Clone recovery into a Full Clone recovery.

While a Thin Clone is desired for testing of a snapshot recovery, a successful validation requires a second recovery of the snapshot in order to obtain volumes not dependent on the source volumes. Without removing the dependencies, volumes with de...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Planned for future release

TSM4VE UI Support for mulitple Spectrum Protect server instances

the current TSM4VE Web UI or plugin does not support the distribution of VM backup data of 1 datacenter to multiple Spectrum Protect instances. Nowadays VM datacenters have reached sizes which require to have more than 1 Spectrum Protect instance ...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus Direct Offload to Spectrum Protect

Enable the direct offload to Spectrum Protect without the requirement to have a copy of the data offloaded in the vSnap.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Abort of STGRule ActionType=Copy if no MountPoint is available

Starting a Storage Rule with ActionType COPY and no Tape MountPoints are available the transaction is aborted by the server.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under 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

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 ...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

NFS V4.1 Support

Need support for NVS V4.1
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Ability to limit io per user for gpfs fs for a node/server

Client need the ability to impose restriction on IO that a user can open on a compute server via cgroup or any other method. They currently have cpu and ram limit per user but users seem to overload io request that retards system responds.
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Monitoring fileset quota (block/files)

Customer want to monitor via SNMP all the alerts that the system can generate like:fileset quota block (soft/hard)fileset quota files (soft/hard)Storage Pool Metadata block/inodes Storage Poo Data block/inodesand all other event that the system is...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 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 ...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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