IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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Erase on Scratch

We have been directed to implement the ERASE on Scratch (ALL) setting on our IBM Systems. Testing was done in our Development environment, but users notified us that the elapsed times of jobs that deleted large disk files were significantly longer...
over 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 9 Delivered

Retrule exclude decommission vm filespaces

We make every first sunday a retset over all vm and keep them for 3 month. Simply define an retrule with an generic filter to catch all vm. All VM are under node SUVA_SWWVC62 and the Filter is SUVA_SWWVC62:* When we decommission an vm this vm will...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Expansion of volumes with a FlashCopy mapping

Currently you have to stop and delete the FlashCopy mapping, if like to expand the volume capacity! Today we run a cirtial process to replace a volume in the LVM / ZFS-Pool to expand capacity. After the process is finished, Easy-Tier must learn an...
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

Increase speed of eeadm tape export on large file systems

The automotive supplier ZF uses Spectrum Archive EE in multiple installations as DR solution, as migration destination and to move data around the world (export / import). On the main site, they run a >30Pbyte file system for ADAS development a...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Delivered

TSM4VE - Easier include/exclude of harddisks for a VM and integration of that in graphical interfaces

Include/Exclude for VM harddisks is made within client option file only, hence the direct usage and visibility in any graphical interface is not given. The user cannot choose within the graphical interfaces which harddisks to include (i.e. during ...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Delivered

LDAP outage should not prevent DSMSERV startup

If LDAP is unreachable dsmserv refuses to start. This should NOT be a requirement. This inserts additional delay and troubleshooting into network outages.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

Handle removals of GM Master LSS on hardware

When Copy Set are removed from Sessions with DS8000 GM role pairs, the GM Master may continue to form CGs and therefore is not stopped/restarted even in case a GM Master reconfiguration might make sense. For example, if all Volumes from a Master L...
over 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Delivered

Turn Off Spectrum Virtualize Pop-ups

Spectrum Virtualize GUI shows pop-up messages from the right side of the GUI window. Pop-ups are for remote support, call home, code recommendations and feedback. These pop-ups hide other buttons or functionality and require some type of intervent...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

(MUFG)Request for improvement of the problems that it takes long time to insert the large number of new logical volumes in MI

We request a one-time upper limit relaxation, the current limit is up to only 10,000 at a time, and improvement for processing speed of tape logical volume insertion from MI. If it is difficult to improve the processing time, we first request to r...
over 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Delivered

Hot spare node

Customers need more redundancy in case of a node failure, and since the SVC hardware is reasonable priced having 1 or 2 more nodes is an option.
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

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