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IBM Storwize/SVC QOS function to prioritize workload

The Storwize / Spectrum Virtualize QOS function (I/O Governing) can limit the I/O's on a LUN. We need a functionality as I/O Priority Manager for different tenants (e.g Pepsi and Coca Cola) on one system.This priority Manager must be integrated in...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

postgreSQL Support

PostgreSQL is a database very common in customers. Currently, many clients are using this database to replace Oracle databases. We see this requirement in RFIs.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Multiple tenants SPP catalog backups to single external vsnap

Add support for replicating multiple SPP catalog backups to a single external VSNAP that is only visible the source server account.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

vsphere CSI support in Spectrum Protect Plus

We're asking for SPP to support vsphere CSI driver in container environment
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

An option to disable unmount mount for bulk selective recalls using multiple file lists from the same tape.

If you do bulk selective recalls, with multiple file lists coming from the same tape, storage archive unmounts the tape after finishing the list. After starting the new list, the same tape is mounted again. This causes massive delays mounting and ...
7 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 2 Future consideration

DS8XXXX Display Current Speed for Fibre Channel Ports As Well As Maximum Speed

I would request that the DS8 CLI and GUI be improved so that the current operating speed of a Fibre Channel Port will be displayed in: 1) lsioport output2) On a new column on the the Settings > Network > Fibre Channel Ports page.3) When hove...
almost 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Future consideration

A flexible way to prestage LV into VTS cache

Today, there is no native zOS utility available that recalls(prestages) all the needed LogicalVolumes in an effective and automated way back into the VTS cache.
about 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

zHyperlink performance monitoring

Spectrum Control is a tool that customer use to manage their capacity, performance and other metrics of Storage environments. Although the Tool/Software have a lot of functions, I realized the zHyperlink performance monitoring aren't one of their ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 3 Future consideration

Fiserv is looking for MFA support with Microsoft Entra ID on IBM DS8900 storage arrays.

Fiserv is standardizing on Microsoft Entra ID for MFA and asking all of their storage vendors to certify Entra ID with their products.
7 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

add --auto-inode-limit for independent filesets

In Storage Scale 5.1.4 mmcrfs/mmchfs introduced the --(no)auto-inode-limit switches. Unfortunately this only works for whole filesystems and cannot be finetuned for individual (independent) filesets. There are situations where you have a mixed env...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

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