IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Ability to flush / clear the cache (not to disk)

    The cache on a node should be able to be cleared without unmounting and remounting the file system
    over 11 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

    Management and control of GPFS disk area and Tape Quota

    <Requirement>GPFS fileset quota can control not only for on the disk, but also on the tape with LTFS EE.
    over 11 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Option to disable HSM recalls into snapshots created for a SOBAR backup

    This RFE addresses an issue with SOBAR regarding HSM and GPFS snapshots.In a GPFS SOBAR procedure, GPFS snapshots are used to freeze the file system temporarily for an image backup. They are NOT used to preserve user data.For this reason and for a...
    over 11 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

    inode number limit

    Need to restrict the inode number to be lower than 2^32 . If its greater than that, 32 bit applications are failing complaining file not found.
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    TSM Operations Center Alert Summaries Interval Change

    Allow for a change to the time interval for email alert summaries by email. Currently, alert summaries are sent approximately every hour. My request was to allow for daily summaries. In addition, the ability to modify the email alert summaries to ...
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

    Enable TSM API to access/process TSM backup client contents

    We are going to implement the API to automate the commands "query backup" and "restore" as a web service with unicode support. Unfortunately, this task can't be completed successfully, although we orient on the code that was provided with the SAMP...
    almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

    make CANCEL REPL end the replication process under any and all circumstances

    delev245 = repltargetdelev245 is not responsible, but running. Ping server delev245 also hangs this situationwas caused by an unresponsive target linux host. ALL replsource servers have to be restarted. How to recover from a hanging "Cancelling re...
    about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

    TSM Login Banner

    Security/Audit demands an authorised legal disclaimer is displayed and acknowledged before user access to IT systems, services or devices is granted
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

    Multiple journal based services on AIX

    We would like to have multiple journal based services on AIX. As far as we know, actually this is just implemented on Windows systems but we would like to have it on our AIX and Linux systems.
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

    Image backup of Oracle ASM

    Customer is interested in doing raw backup of Oracle ASM disk. Currenty is only supported via TDP For Databases or via FlashCopy Manager. This is only valid like logical backup but our customer wants to know if it is possible to save the volumes w...
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

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