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Support remote pair flashcopy on Global Mirror Primary devices.

Currently we have a GDPS Metro Mirror environment that is being expanded with LCP in a Metro Physical Airgap solution.So we have PPRC Metro Mirror between RS1 -> RS2 and Global Mirror between RS2 -> RS3. In our GDPS Metro Mirror environment ...
about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

ARM Support in Spectrum Scale

The Jülich Supercompting Centre is running HPC compute resources for the European Science community. The storage solution is based of a central Spectrum Scale storage cluster which is mounted on ~8.000 compute nodes using GPFS remote cluster mount...
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

Add possibility to change SQL agent communication IPs

The SPP SQL Agent needs to communicate with the ISP GUI to get the credentials for mounting the SMB log volume from the vSnap.Unfortunately it's not possible to change the IP or network which is used for this communication. This is a big issue in ...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Check the GM subordinate even if there are no copyset in it.

Currently CSM only queries for copysets that are actively participating in a session. If we have a session with a subordinate with no more copysets on the subordinate, CSM doesn't check the state of the subordinate. Adding a check of the subordina...
about 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

Need a way to move clients between vsnap servers to load balance use of vsnaps

Customer would like the ability to move clients from one vsnap to another to help balance the use of the vsnap servers in their environment.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Management Class in Library Request Command LVOL

There is no way to see the management class for a specific volume with the Library Request Command LVOL. You will get a lot of information, but there are no SMS constructs in the output. In the MI you will find it via Volume Details, but there is ...
3 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Planned for future release

Secure object information

We need the ability to store and secure object information (data in cloud) like: WORM, Expiration, Retention time etc…. As general, this function should be in TCT (DS8000) and in TS7700C.
over 2 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Planned for future release

Check and Validate data on Export media

There is a government regulation for checking information on external physical tapes. External tape information can now only be checked on a single and clean cluster that is not in the grid and we can't do any data validation on exported media.
over 2 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

Send an SNMP trap when an open problem is fixed, for SNMP server to clean/drop the alert.

Send SNMP traps when open problems are fixed so clients can automate the cleanup of open issues on their monitoring tools.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Activities history (audits).

Hallo As we see, practically, there is no user (admin) activity logs in the SPP. It is not possible for example, to track, who and when apply or remove SLA from VM or application. It would be nice to have activities list for different operations, ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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