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    Associate Multiple Sysplexes on different type of sessions

    Allow to associate multiple sysplexes to one session to support features as Hyperswap for SAS and shared volumes. As implemented in CSM 6.3.10 for 4 sites replication enhanced sessions we would like to be able to associate multiple sysplexes to a ...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    To simplify the deployment of workloads in the cloud, IBM must improve the performance of the Scale command "mmaddnode" to allow for faster spin up/down of resources.

    Nodes in the cloud need to be spun up quickly as needed. Currently mmaddnode takes too long to add a significant number of nodes as it sequentially adds nodes to the cluster; not only that, but other commands like mmchlicense, mmchnodeclass, and m...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Planned for future release

    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...
    over 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Future consideration

    Scale CSI & CNSA should be package with base scale distribution

    IBM Storage Scale Container Storage Interface Driver and IBM Storage Scale Container Native are add-on interfaces that are included in the base licensing for IBM Storage Scale. They are currently only available via external repositories that requi...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    AWS EC2 Snapshot replication and copy

    Allow an AWS EC2 snapshot to be ingested by SPP's repository and the ability of creating other copies, using replication and copy/offload features.
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Add the ability to accept a callhome Flash system block device via Rest API

    We are trying to automate tasks across nearly 80 systems, and this number grows with each release. Currently, accepting each system manually through the SI UI is time-consuming. We aim to automate this process using the REST API and validate the i...
    12 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

    Schedule a snapshot every 4 weeks via GUI (currently only available via CLI)

    A snapshot schedule created via GUI does not allow this schedule: mksnapshotpolicy -backupunit week -backupinterval 4 Using the GUI, only once a month can be set but customer needs every 4 weeks for his schedule. He primarily uses GUI, rather than...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    Initiate a SafeGuarded Copy from the GUI without using policies (currently only CLI)

    Customer needs a way to initiate an adhoc SGC of a volume. This is currently only possible via CLI. Use case: their SLA’s include taking an immutable snapshot and keeping it for x days (up to a year), immediately after certain changes. Examples in...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

    Improve disk to tape data migration by allowing multiple threads to read data from disk in parallel

    Spectrum Protect (SP) server data migration performance from disk to tape is limited by the data throughput reading data from disk. In this situation the SP server was reading data from disk (flash) with about 90MB/sec.The SP server internal instr...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Future consideration

    vsnap storage migration from EOS/EOL Backend storage to new storage on same vsnap

    We have no approved solution to migrate the attached LUNs on a vsnap server to new LUNs on same vsnap server. We need that if backend storage is going EOL/EOS. Currently there is only one solution and this is to create new vsnap server with new LU...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

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