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    Node Designation/Role Listed in mmlscluster

    Any node designation that is possible with the mmchnode command should be listed in the output of mmlscluster for that specific node. This will provide a quality of life improvement when figuring out exactly which node is serving which purpose. Fo...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Increase logical tape drives per cluster to more than 496

    TS7700s get more robust with each generation released allowing for more systems to share the high-bandwidth I/O and storage capacity but the logical tape drives have not increased, making it difficult to assign sufficient tape units to each sharin...
    about 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Future consideration

    Improve the CSM behaviour to find free session IDs on the hardware

    At the moment CSM only checks the GM masters running on the Ds8000 and their state. It is not checked which LSS sessions are configured but are not members of a running Global Mirror. In situations where the DS8k hardware is managed by different t...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Not under consideration

    Be able to set default throttle or multiple throttle schedules (business hours or weekends, for example)

    This request is to have the ability of creating different throttle schedules, or setting a default throttle.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Oracle Agentless Cold Backups

    IBM Spectrum Protect PlusOracle Agentless COLD Backups Current versions of IBM SPP only support Hot backups. Our customer has all they Development environment with Oracle in non Archive log mode. Causing SPP not a viable option to implement backups.
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Protocols - S3: automatically create new fileset for each new S3 bucket

    With this feature we can use the filesetquota function, snapshot-funktion to maintain the usage and backup of the underlying fs.
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Support immutable object storage with retention sets to object (retention pools)

    Immutable object storage features, such as AWS Object Lock or COS Retention Vaults is supported for object/cloud container pools, but NOT supported for object retention pools. This request is to support immutable object storage for retention sets ...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Improve the Logical Path Change alert to be more specific.

    Currently, when a connection is temporarily dropped, we receive an email alert (like the one shown below) to notify us that a path has gone down. In the DS8K log, we can see when the path goes down, & when comes back up, but the alerts show th...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    One authentication for a group of Dual Operator Notifications actions, such as disabling multiple scheduled tasks

    Currently we have 100+ scheduled tasks for CSM SGC backups. As we have Dual Operator enabled, this currently creates a Notification for each task. Would it be possible to group this type of action together to Approve as currently the overhead is s...
    10 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Rename the Custom tag 1 (2 and 3)

    Resources -> Block Storage Systems -> Select a Storage ->View Properties is showing the fields: Custom Tag 1 Custom Tag 2 Custom Tag 3 Resources -> Pools -> Select a Pool -> View Properties is also showing the fields named: Custo...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

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