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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against IBM System Storage products. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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NFS mounts to use sync data path even when async is specified by client

When a client mounts a Scale NFS export and mounts it as async, performance is significantly worse than with sync. As a workaround, we would like Scale to treat all mounts as sync (at least until the root cause of the async performance is found an...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

DP for Exchange still needs Organization Management right or your SR/PMR won't be supported

If you use DP for Exchange, you'll still need the Permission Organzation Management right, or you won't get 2nd-Level support from IBM.In large companies, like VW, it's not common that automation-users will get these rights. VW uses DP for Exchang...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Delivered

SVC >7.4 support for NetApp AFF 80XX

Hello, please I need to know if SVC version 7.4 and above, support or will support NetApp AFF 80XX platform with CDOT version 8.3.1 . Matrix currently state support for FAS 8000 with DOT 8.3.1 , but it's unclear if this extends to AFF 8000 platfor...
about 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Flash copy manager support for RHEL 6.8

Currently there is no FCM version released for RHEL(Redhat enterprise Linux) 6.8. The latest version of FCM 4.1.6 does support RHEL 7, but don't support RHEL 6.8. Currently our environment is running on RHEL 6.7 with FCM 4.1.4 and we are in the pr...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Delivered

Increase Max Drives per Cluster

Maximum drive limits need to be increased per cluster, to 4224 per clustered system.
about 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Let Spectrum Protect Shapshot Support the SQL Server 2008 SP1

The customer want to construct the online backup of SQL server.Hypervisor is HyperV (Windows 2012) and SQL Server is 2008 SP1.The customer expect the Spectrum Protect Snapshot make it.However, Spectrum Protect Snapshot support not SQL Server 2008S...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Delivered

tsmdiskperf.pl doesn't work on RHEL7

I downloaded the latest blueprint scripts (v2.3) to get the tsmdiskperf.pl script I ran this on a RHEL6 server and got valid results. However running it on my RHEL7 server gave zero results. The problem appears to be that the script cannot match t...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

Spectrum Scale should easily detect when only a single usable copy of any piece of data remains.

Spectrum Scale allows users to define multiple replicas of any portions of file systems. Upon disk failure, restriping allows replicated data to be replaced on other working local storage. Quality of service lets administrators regulate system res...
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

SVC upgrades with internal SSDs can stall or require manual intervention

In a SVC CG8 cluster, there is a potential for an upgrade to stall if there is Raid1 or Raid10 array built from the internal SSDs. If the partner node upgrade starts before array is synchronized, the upgrade will be stalled and a manual upgrade wi...
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Enable opt-in flush-on-close feature in GPFS

Provide a mechanism by which a GPFS client may opt-in to enable implicit flush whenever close is called on a file opened for writing. This provides some additional safety against mmfsd crashes and node crashes impacting data which users believe wa...
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered