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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...
5 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Not under consideration

Add new option for the tag value in content search policy: "1st Capturing Group"

In content search policies, you can use a regular expression to match content, selecting True/False or "Value matching expression" to be used as the tag's value. For example: Regular Expression: \b[\w_-]+\d{5}[\w_-]+\bContent: /opt/applications/da...
about 3 years ago in Storage Discover 3 Not under consideration

Optimize migration algorythm of seq. storagepool to collocated storagepool

Short:When migrating data from a file pool to a collocated tape pool a large number of mounts occur in the tape pool causing throughput to go down and maintenance can not complete in time. Setup:Data flowClient > (backup) > file pool > (m...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

TDP for Database SQL

ISP Server V8.1.11ISP Client V8.1.9TDP for Database SQL 8.1.9 AlwaysOn DB configured on TDP for Database SQL with11 Instance (Active/Inactive) containing more than 70 SQL Database using MMC. Problem:When doing selective Restore (Active and Inactiv...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

multiple backup sessions per FS

It would be interesting to be able to backup a single big FS with multiple backup sessions without the need to define VirtualMountpoints ( besides virtualmountpoints is not available on windows ).If the DSMC could automatically scan the directory ...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 7 Not under consideration

MDISK removal advanced features

It would be great to be able to tune rmmdisk performance, I mean, selecting all mdisks to remove from a pool and ensure a few things: 1.- Do no write extends on mdisks that have been also selected for removal, it has no sense to put workload in md...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Litigation Hold Property on File Spaces.

Provide an ability to prevent expiration processing to occur for a file space when a node becomes part of a "Litigation Hold" issue. The status of enabled would over-ride expiration processing of files/folders in the file space. Microsoft Exchange...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Not under consideration

Select background colour in GUI

When working with several systems it would be nice to change background colour or banner colour.It would be easier to visually see what system you are working on.
about 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Show command that will be executed via GUI before confirmation

IBM Flashsystem GUI has a nice feature that shows what cli command was executed in the backend for selected options. It would be much better to show what will be executed before confirmation.
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Secure LCU from PPRC Target

I would like to be able to keep a volume(s) from being used for a PPRC target. I would prefer it to be protected at the LCU/LSS level. Since there is no user associated with a PPRC target, resource groups do not apply. I want to be able to protect...
almost 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

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