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    Add CRTPERIOD (similar to CHGPERIOD) on the "SAV" CL Command

    When doing large migrations, the number of objects in the IFS could add up to nearly terabytes. We would like to save IFS files based on Creation Date rather than Last Changed Date. The benefit is we can migrate files created before or since a spe...
    11 months ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 1 Future consideration

    Save 21 / Restore 21 End Option for Tape (*unload, *rewind *Leave)

    Add an option to allow the selection to the Go Save menu Option 21 Entire System Save and Go Restore 21 Entire System Restore To add the ability to select the tape media End Option e.g. *unload, *rewind *Leave Use Case: This is particularly useful...
    over 6 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 4 Future consideration

    increase speed on DUPTAP and DUPMEDBRM positioning

    Increase positioning speed during DUPTAP / DUPMEDBRM or change behavior of how it is done.Currently on each duplication operation the cartridge is rewound and drive reads from beginning every sequence until it reaches the desired seq. number to be...
    almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 10 Future consideration

    CRTIMGCLG vs Server NAS

    We manage a Outsourcing Services for Banking and Insurance Customers. Our policies and the customer directives request to save (all days) the application libraries and data libraries in multiple copies on the physical media tape. Now we save on th...
    about 7 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 2 Future consideration

    GO SAVE 21,22,23 display improvement

    GO SAVE options 20 and 21 display a screen to enter the tape device, etc. I believe option 22 uses the same screen. It appears all 3 options use the same display. Please display on that screen the actual option / option description chosen on the m...
    about 4 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 2 Future consideration

    Support of SAP HANA multi-target scale-up configuration (A->B & A->C) via Smart Assist in PowerHA

    Multi-target HSR (Hana System Replication) A->B & A->C will likely be the most desired configuration for the customers who want both HA and DR for HANA. We are implementing it at the customer now, but since there is no smart assist, ther...
    about 6 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Not under consideration

    Enhance PHA Startup Policy "Online Using Node Distribution Policy"

    Today the PowerHA Starup policy "Online Using Node Distribution Policy" is hard coded to use the CPU load only.There should be the same list of options as for Resource Group Fallover policy "Fallover Using Dynamic Node Priority".
    about 5 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Planned for future release

    Smart assist support for NFS server

    We need smart assist support for NFS server
    about 6 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Not under consideration

    Graphic tool or sql service to know the percentage of use of the tapes.

    Currently there is no tool or any sql service that helps to know the percentage of use/free is a tape device. For now there is only this old method to calculate it. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/how-much-data-and-how-much-free-space-available-...
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 3 Submitted

    Enable restoring last used date from save media rather than setting it to the restore date.

    When a customer moves between systems, say Power9 to Power10 using the standard tape Save/Restore every object on the system gets stamped with the last used date of the restore. This becomes a problem when the customer starts reviewing things to f...
    about 2 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 2 Future consideration

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