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TDP for Database SQL

ISP Server V8.1.11ISP Client V8.1.9TDP for Database SQL 8.1.9 AlwaysOn DB configured on TDP for Database SQL with11 Instance (Active/Inactive) containing more than 70 SQL Database using MMC. Problem:When doing selective Restore (Active and Inactiv...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

IBM SV data change rate integrated report

IBM SV (SVC or FS family) need to have an intgrated way with GUI or Cli to collect data change rate in a specific time window and interval to enable SGC to be easier and correctly sized. It will helps to be more pervasive in SGC diffusion and more...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Future consideration

SPP Allow Multiple IBM COS Accessors or Load Balancer for Offload to On-Prem IBM COS

Customer needs the ability to configure the "Copy" portion of their SLA Policy to allow either a load balancer or multiple endpoints to be configured.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add a timeout to the MIGRATE STGPOOL command

Every day, we encounter migration processes that are waiting for access to an input file that is busy. Examples of waiting processes (stgpool FER.FILE is devclass=FILE): 63 Migration Volume /sppool/fer3/003CFCB3.BFS (storage pool FER.FILE), Moved ...
6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Improve CSM Monitoring : create "customer" own list of message containing specific pattern to trigger email alert function

Ability to create custom list of " chosen message and filtering "sheduled task completed" only for session starting by pattern a specif pattern Company01 , Company02...,. We are using CSM in very converged / consolidated infra, our CSM handle many...
about 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Needs more information

Ansible modules for DS8000

Provide an ansible collection with modules to perform the equivalent of DSCLI using playbooks. ** Note the RFE webpage forced me to choose an operating system and z/OS was the only choice. This is not a z/OS operating system request
over 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

encrypted standard/archive copy to S3 like SP

If I want to save the data securely in the cloud - without extra encryption of the buckets by S3 Provider, then the vSnap encryption on the VSnap doesn’t help either. The bucket file is always stored unencrypted. We would like to implement a func...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Support for restoring concurrent vg

There are some insignificant errors during OS restore with concurrent vg via NIM Resource Boot. “0516-1305 chvg: This command is not allowed while volume group sapbinvg is concurrent capable”“0516-1300 chpv: -h option is not allowed for hdisk3 bec...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 1 Is a defect

When creating a support case, email contacts need to be included

When a support ticket is created within SI, no email contacts are included to alert the creator/team that the ticket exists or has updates. You must manually go check the ticket periodically to see if any updates have been posted. Could allow a de...
4 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Under review

Idea for Flash Grid Promote (with only one flash system)

As in previous versions, please bring back the "in this same controller housing" feature that was available when setting up partnership, as it allows practice and demonstration of PBR settings in a single controller housing, which is useful for pr...
4 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

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