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    Avoid to damage good tape media by bad drive

    In Baidu hyper scale tape storage system, we met many cases that good tape cartridges is marked to bad status because of bad drive. For example, drive1 is bad, Archive EE still uses it to write or read data and get the error result, Archive EE wil...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Future consideration

    Add metadata entry to a file to be able to know when it was last recalled

    This would make ik possible to leave a file premigrated for a defined time period.
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Future consideration

    improve the "eeadm file state" performance

    The customer uses' eeadm file state -q FILENAME' to check the file status to ensure that the file has been migrated to tape. Currently, the time required for this command cannot meet the business's needs, which will result in longer waiting times ...
    11 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Future consideration

    Spectrum Archive - Undelete functionality

    Hi,Our client would like to have a feature on Spectrum Archive that will do the following :1.)Allow the undelete (recreate of stub file) of deleted file(s).2.)List all files on tape.
    over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Future consideration

    Change status of a need_replace tape

    The eeadm tape replace command is a command that take long time because when this command is in the reclaim phase, is only allowed to use two tape drive although a regular "eeadm tape reclaim" command is allowed to use more tape drive. Sometime, a...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Future consideration

    Add option in Spectrum Protect OC to send reports in PDF format

    One of my customers requested to have the option to send Spectrum Protect reports in PDF format via email. This is the same functionality that they have today, since they are using Tivoli Monitoring for Tivoli Storage Manager and IBM Tivoli Common...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Future consideration

    SAEE - Ability to change behavior of tape drive selection mechanism for transparent recalls to use also redundant copy and distribute workload to all copies

    Customer can use all available HW resources - all tape drives in all tape libraries for transparent recalls and increase throughput of recalls. It could be fine If I can set copies which will be available for transparent recalls. Customer faces pr...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Future consideration

    SOBAR like recovery for Spectrum Archive

    Large Spectrum Archive installation cannot afford backing up files twice so file replication on different tapes is being used.Spectrum Scale Metadata becomes critical as any corruption due to software or harware error may produce a long outage to ...
    almost 7 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Future consideration

    Logging of details for files deleted by dsmc delete on Spectrum Protect client

    If on a client node an administrator deletes files using the dsmc delete arch or dsmc delete back there is no detailed logging of the deleted files neither on the ISP server nor on the ISP client. You only have the number of deleted files in the a...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Future consideration

    Client is using single-node IBM Spectrum Archive EE(LTFSEE)/IBM Spectrum Scale(GPFS) cluster on RHEL 7.9 x86_64. The current version of LTFSEE is at 1.3.2.4. Client wants to relocate the *exsisting* server to other location/other network so that IP and hostname of the server needs to be changed. Local support team has asked the procedure to adapt LTFSEE for the changed IP and hostname to GDL LTFS development by LTFS RTC item #86989. Development has answered that there is no procedure to do it as of now. The server relocation is sometimes required with the relocation of customer’s server room or various reasons. Customer strongly needs the verified procedure and/or utility on LTFSEE to adapt IP/hostname change of the server asap. Note: GPFS has such procedure. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-scale/5.1.8?topic=topics-changing-ip-addresses-host-names-cluster-nodes

    The verified procedure and/or utility on LTFSEE to adapt IP/hostname change of the server asap.
    about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Future consideration

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