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Automatic ingest for new tapes

I want to load new tapes into I/O slots and have them automatically moved into available slots based on function (data tape or cleaning tape). Right now, at least one magazine must be fully removed to add new tapes.
over 2 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 3 Future consideration

qos support dio

qos support dio
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Excluding virtual mount points from backups

Need option to exclude the virtual mount points from backups
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

You should be able to configure notification of user password expiration.

A frequent problem I have is that the ESS GUI user accounts expire and I have to get them reset. It would be useful if you could set up e-mail notifications that an account is about to expire. My organization does this .... when my password is wit...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

Add all of the information in the ACTLOG receiver events to the SYSLOG receiver destination

The activity log receiver receives events of the format04/24/2020 08:02:06 ANR2017I Administrator TSMADMIN issued command: ASFDASF (SESSION: 773) but the syslog receiver receives events of the format2020-04-24T08:02:06 dsmserv[14887]: UVIC_ADM4: A...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Change of srvmon directory to different path instead of instance path

Our instance home directory which is 20 GB in size is getting full as the hidden collection folder in srvmon directory is using up to 15 GB of the space in instance directory before it can get purged.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Allow for bulk add of mmces addresses in node-affinity

We have found that for deployments of 16 or more CES nodes that node-affinity mode is the most predictive and stable, the challenge is in deployment time. In balanced mode all of the addresses can be deployed in 1-2 minutes. With 32 CES nodes runn...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

CSM TOCHECK ON HDS HYPERSWAP that a copy destination of 1 LCU does not come from more than 4 source LCUs

CSM team confirmed that per current design there is a check made by CSM that one source LCU has no more than 4 target, but there is not a check made into the opposite direction that a copy destination of 1 LCU does not come from more than 4 source...
over 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

update ffdc to gather more information

Please enhance "ffdc ALL" to gather all logfiles that are needed by IBM support and development.Currently there are several debug logs not included that require support staff to request with instructions.
over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

Multipile tags created via single REST API request

Currently, tags must be created one by one using a POST request to spectrum discover. Attempting to send a list of tags in JSON like: [ { "tag" : "test1" , "type" : "Characteristics" , "value" : "[ \" True \" , \" False \" ]" } , { "tag" : "test2"...
over 2 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Future consideration

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