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    Request for managing Copy functions in the DS GUI

    We have several customers Open / IBMi / zOS who use mirrored DS8000 and who currently use the Old GUI for management of the Mirroring and FlashCopy.CSM is economically not an option for them.
    about 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

    Multiple Storage Protect Server DB backup on one tape

    Currently SP only supports storing one internal DB backup per volume. If using tape (as recommended) e.g. LTO9 this results in using a 18 TB tape volume for storing only 100 GB database backup. Running 20 instance and doing 2 DB backup per day kee...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3

    'mmdf Device -h' for Human Readable Output

    I'm used to do 'df -h' on linux operating systems to get human readable output. With 'mmdf' I have to use 'mmdf Device --block-size=auto' for human readable output, which is a bit unhandy for me. My suggestion is, to invent 'mmdf device -h' for hu...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 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...
    about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 1 Is a defect

    Set Up virtual volumes Pools for different z/OS applications

    We want to define different volume pools and address them via Storage Class, so that we can specify from the z/OS side which application (via Storage Class ACS routine) writes to which virtual volume pool (logical volume range). In this way, we ca...
    about 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    Manually select a specific snapshot and offload for long-term retention

    Manually select a specific backup/snapshot and offload it for long-term retention.
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    mount and unmount events are not in the event log or sent to syslog servers

    The mount and demount activity from the home page of the TS4500 GUI should be reflected in the event log GUI and the syslog stream. Having to look at multiple locations to find activity details adds complexity during incident review/debugging.
    2 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Empty directories are not restored during a single file restore operation

    If your restore collection contains also empty directories , the empty directories are not restored. We also need restore empty directories, which are used temporarily.The default according to the manual is "skip" empty directories. It is intentio...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

    SPP: Enable filesystem & DB Backup at the same time

    When looking in the System requirements for SPP, the following restriction is mentioned: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6421231 Only one application server or file server can be assigned per host. For example, if a host is registered as a ...
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    Enable bond1 (25GbE cards) with FDF (Lenovo nodes) to be used with VLANs and VMs

    We noticed that currently the 25 GbE cards are mostly used for management/provisioning purposes. This fact got us thinking if we could use said network cards for a testing/development environment. The fundamental idea would be enabling a Linux net...
    7 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Planned for future release

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