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retenrule with individual filespaces

The new feature retention rule does not allow to define individual filespaces for an BA/aR Client.This parameter is only supported for vm backups.The feature retention rule / retention sets should be an alternative to the backupsets.The backupset ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

TCP Window size - update default to 0 on platforms with auto tuning

Both the TSM server and TSM client has an option named TCPWINDOWSIZE that tunes the TCP window size.<br /><br />Most of us would expect that the default would be 0, ie go with the operating system default settings. This is not the case...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Delivered

vdisk_protection_enabled in IBM i PowerHA environments

IBM i has many functions where LUNs are automatically unmapped or flashed on storage systems.e.g. DB2 Mirror (when creating the initial flash), PowerHA (IASP) LUN switching, ...These fully automated functions do not work properly when vdisk_protec...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Improve Logical Block Protection performance by using faster CRC implementation

The Logical Block Protection (LBP) feature in Spectrum Protect (TSM) is currently limiting performance when used with current generation tape drives. In production we see around 360 MB/s without LBP enabled, degrading to around 200 MB/s with LBP e...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

Minimizing IO delays when a node in a SVC cluster goes down or restarts.

System: The customer's large production systems where SVC is used Actor: Users requesting to improve the quality of SVC SVC is used to manage the customer's large storage systems which are used by many mission critical servers. To minimize IO fail...
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Request to change the capacitor quality in the Storage Enclosure Midplane.

<Customer>Japan Post Insurance Co., Ltd. (Kampo) <Summary of the Request>Request to change the capacitor quality in the Storage Enclosure Midplane.
about 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Delivered

Monitor volumes occupation via IBM Block Storage CSI (container storage interface) driver

My customer wants to request an enhancement to IBM Block Storage CSI (container storage interface) driver. In summary my customer is using OCP 4.6 (openshift container platform) and they use the metering system provided by the product (Prometheus)...
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Additional information needed about mmbackup jobs

The mmbackup command uses the Scale policy engine to determine what needs to be backed up. It should be possible to get additional information about the backup from the policy engine, including the amount of data to be backed up. This kind of info...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

SVC STAT Tool should show volume and pool names

Currently the IBM Storage Tier Advisor Tool does show volume IDs and pool ID instead of human readable names, In addition those IDs are shown in hex format which is nowhere used in the SVC CLI or GUI. The tools seems to be created/targeted at DS80...
about 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 7 Delivered

256K tape blocksize support for NDMP backups for NetApp

We are doing NDMP backups of NetApp filer to TSM Server on IBM Protectier Storage (as VTL). We are doing LANFree backups using DATAMover to storage pool on Protectier. The storage pool is of type "NetApp Dump" "BACKUP NODE" TSM server command is u...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

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