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    Fusion alternate namespace restores for Cloud Paks

    Customer query - Will CPD 4.8 support via Fusion a restore of the same instance into a new namespace within the source cluster? That means I have two instances in different namespaces within the cluster. This is a constant request from customers w...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Fusion 1 Planned for future release

    configure SP API so that traffic uses client-side encryption without an explicit call from the API client

    Customers require the ability to secure data from storage protect/spectrum protect server administrative staff. Currently, this can only be done by enabling client-side encryption. For API clients, encryption is only enabled if the client software...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

    SPS: Add roll back capability if restore fails

    As of today, SPS deletes the File System (FS) and Volume Group (VG) as preparation for the restore. If the restore fails, then the OS (here AIX) is left without the FS.To continue, customer needs to manually recreate the VG and FS, most likely to ...
    8 months ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Submitted

    Let admin define scopes of systems that users can see

    Ease of use. Let different teams see relevant information only.
    3 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

    The different pokes for DS8K subsystems should be documented

    In DS8K there exist different pokes - which is internal settings that change the default Microcode behavior. A poke is typically set by a DS8K SME based on a case. But as it could help solve problems for you, you need to know that the poke exists....
    about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    To have new command backup nodedata that copies the primary data of selected nodes to copy stgpools, independent of underlying primary storage pools.

    Like the move nodedata can move data for special nodes we would like to have that for a backup nodedata that copies the primary data of selected nodes to copy stgpools. We would not need to create extra primary stgpools for driving backup stg but ...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Allow PVCs to use storage class with waitForFirstConsumer volumeBindingMode during restore operation

    In multi-availability zone (AZ) environments, when a PVC is created with the volumeBindingMode set to Immediate, it is pre-created within a random availability zone. When the pod is created later to consume it, if it is not created in the same AZ,...
    10 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Functionality already exists

    killing running mmbackup processes on all participating nsd server

    In some circumstances (maintenance window / problem investigation) it is important for us to kill all mmbackup sessions on a scale cluster. We, as the storage and backup admingroup in our company struggeling currently in missing a feature that mmb...
    11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Migrate VM's to new SLA's without taking new full backups

    Customers want the ability to migrate VM's to new SLA's without taking new full backups. This is due to when customers want to split VMs up already in existing SLAs currently this needs a full backup to be re-run and therefore more space needed in...
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Adding options to loading DSCLI(DS Command Line Interface)

    Loading the DSCLI code from Windows/IBM i requires Java 8 or newer plus using the ftp protocol. When the company has removed the use of Oracle Java and replace with another version of Java for the company to use, Second, company has block the use ...
    over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 6 Future consideration

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