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Status Not under consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 23, 2013

SVC Flash Copy GUI Change

I have discussed this with Bill Wiegand but i am requesting a change to the SVC GUI. The GUI needs to display a restore option for flashcopy sessions. Currently It is a operational challenge to perform restores on a large number of flashcopy sessions. A restore at the consistency group level would be great without needing to make reverse flashcopy sessions.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Sep 23, 2019

    Tracked at https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=85882

  • Guest
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    Jun 12, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Storage
    Product - IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) / Spectrum Virtualize

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Tivoli
    Product family - Storage
    Product - IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) / Spectrum Virtualize

  • Guest
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    Nov 11, 2013

    Emerson is a big XIV customer and could be a huge showcase for IBM as first XIV and now SVC and V3700 are gradually replacing their EMC environment with huge additional potential business for TSM and IBM tape libraries. We need to get this done as we are talking potentially 6 PB of managed disk behind SVC in the Emerson environment!

    Is there a list of candidate enhancements that customers could see and vote on or prioritize?

  • Guest
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    Sep 4, 2013

    Thank you for the input, and we agree there is potential to improve in the area of the GUI as it relates to FlashCopy restores.  We will have it on our list of candidates under consideration.