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    Storage Archive to query and refer to the active snapshot location instead of having it hardcoded to the default ./snapshots value

    If the snapshot location is changed within Storage Scale from the default ./snapshots value (for instance by mmsnapdir scale -a --snapdir .newsnapshotlocation, then Storage Archive might be lost in trying to find snapshots in the default ./snapsho...
    10 days ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Submitted

    [Copy] REST consistency and authentication improvements

    The rest api is currently not consistent with the eeadm cli. This makes it difficult to automate things that rely on information the cli can output but the rest api doesn't. A few examples: 1. tasks https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-archive-ee/1...
    about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Under review

    Allow to the replace command to reclaim tapes in parallel

    Hi, From time to time we need to run the "eeadm tape replace" command to replace from the tape library, some tapes that the Storage Archive detect some read or write actions and decide that this tape is not healthy and it has to be removed and rep...
    3 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Under review

    Please continue supporting the TS2900 in IBM Storage Archive v2.4.8 and later.

    Supported tape libraries - IBM Documentation https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-archive-le/2.4.8?topic=planning-supported-tape-libraries IBM Storage Archive LE supports the following IBM® tape libraries: IBM Diamondback Tape Library (IBM LTO 9 an...
    3 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Future consideration

    Error message to provide specific detail of problem

    When Storage Archive is retrieving a file but the tapes where primary or any replica copies reside are offline the error message is non-descript and just says there is an error as opposed to error primary and replica files not available as tapes o...
    4 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Not under consideration

    REST consistency and authentication improvements

    The rest api is currently not consistent with the eeadm cli. This makes it difficult to automate things that rely on information the cli can output but the rest api doesn't. A few examples: 1. tasks https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-archive-ee/1...
    4 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Under review

    When doing reclamation, recalls should go to other pool copy in 2nd library during reclamation

    This helps reclamation to go much quicker, not being paused by recalls on the same tape!
    5 months 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.
    10 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 ...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Future consideration

    Add LTFS EE support to Ceph based Distributed File System

    A lot of cold data in Ceph based DFS need to migrate to Tape. The existing solution is backup/archive with backup software or put data via S3 interface to S3 based deep archive solution which is very complicated,no automation and no competitive pr...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Not under consideration

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