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Support end user activation for HyperSwap relationship suspension and activation to allow batch workload best performance

Spectrum Virtualize HyperSwap current implementation does not allow selectively pausing/activating active-active replication for a volume or a consistency group protected by the HyperSwap mechanism. This forbids clients to host latency sensitive w...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Tape 7700 CUIR Function Enhancement - Vary one device Online for testing purpose while the Cluster in Service Mode

First: What is it? Vary one device Online for testing purpose while the Cluster in Service Mode using CUIR Function before bring the Cluster back to Online mode using GUI. At Now, we bring the Cluster in Service Prep, then finish what need to be d...
9 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 3 Not under consideration

Cloudtype S3 IA

Support for off-premise cloud container pool cloudtype for AWS S3 IA storage. Currently the only option is for S3.AWS offers S3 IA as an additional storage option - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-storage-update-new-lower-cost-s3-storage-opti...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

TSM Snapdiff backup and usage of Snapdiffchangelog in Stagingdirectory

First concerns is with the stagingdirectory itself. In documentation for BA client (7.1.3) is the following statement:"The stagingdirectory option defines the location where the client can keep anydata that it generates to perform its operations. ...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Improvment for FICON Adapter error corretion process.

The customer requested improvement for FICON Adapter error correction process when the link status goes to unstable. Please refer to the case, TS010589231. The support team said, "If customer insists to change an unstable fscsi path to disable, Yo...
about 2 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

Single VM Backup History

A common question is ‘why is my VM taking ages to backup'. A Gannt chart view is a really powerful tool for answering these questions. In the example below the VM backed up mostly between 19:00 and 23:00, except on Mondays when there was extra chu...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

TSM-VE : better handling of VM template backup

may I suggest to not report a VM template backup as failed as it is done now when the VMENABLETEMPLATEBACKUPS is specified in the datamover option file ? It dosen't make sens to raise Error when excpected behavior has occured. If I specify the opt...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

More intelligent Caching

With the DS8000 IBM has several patents and very efficient caching algorithms. This interlectural property should be also available in the SVC
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Add /var/spool/clientmqueue to logrotate

HMC2 was unable to backup critical data or send emails due to writes to /var were failing with "[No space left on device]". The cause of this was because /var was completely out of inodes as a result of /var/spool/clientmqueue had accumulated over...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

lin_tape driver for Ubuntu is outdated, any plans to update in the near future?

lin_tape driver is needed for all IBM LTO tape drives and libraries. We have applications running on Ubuntu and need a current version of the driver. With the current version we are stuck to Ubuntu 20.04 and can't move forward.
9 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

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