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Customizable profile for Storwize LUNs

Have a customizable default profile for new vdisks to set flags and parameters according to administrative specifications.
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

TS7700 ignore 'delayed premigration' on copy clusters

Today TS7700 can delay premigration of virtual volumes with specific storage class settings. One can setup e.g. cluster 0 to use a premig delay and on cluster 1 to not use a premig delay. However, when you want to operate in dual active cluster mo...
over 8 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Delivered

TSM for ERP for DB2 support on DB2 v10.5

TSM for ERP (SAP) using DB2 is not supported for DB version 10.5
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 4 Delivered

Readd the ability to change GUI SSL certificate in Storwize Family

We currently only offer a self signed SSL certificate in the Storwize GUI.Some customers ask to exchange those SSL certificates with their own - official - SSL certificate as they are not allowed to use self signed certificates in high risk areas ...
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

IBM AIX platform support for Spectrum Virtualize IP Quorum JAVA application

IBM Spectrum Virtualize IP quorum application is currently officially supported on RHEL6.5, RHEL7.0 and SLES11m3 and SLES12. Required Java runtime environment 7.1 or 8.0. Could IBM development certify IP quorum also for AIX platform, as current su...
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

TSM Drive Support for Oracle StorageTek T10000D

We need support for the Oracle StorageTek T10000D tape drive. Should be simple, same media as the T10000C.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Delivered

copy export for z/VM

We mutualize our TS7700 with our clients. When a client requires to use it, we would like to export our data to give him a TS7700 we can clean up for his standalone restore. Then be able to restore our data when he has finished his exercice.
almost 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Delivered

V7000 / SVC mdisk secure wipe

V7000 and SVC should have the ability to wipe (secure erase) unused extents in mdisks. This would require a CLI command to issue a wipe against unused extents using one or more commercially reasonable secure erase algorithms.
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Create a new column in percentile within Storage Insights for "SafeGuarded Copy SGC Used Capacity"

The SGC reserved capacity is set per volume. This capacity can be set to whatever multiplier of the original CKD volume itself. To be able to monitor this SGC reserved capacity it is imperative to have a column for SGC Used Capacity in percentage ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Delivered

Comprhensive management tool for multiple Storwize V7000 systems

Need to enhance the management GUI for Storwize V7000 to manage multiple Storwize V7000 systems
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

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