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Allow allocation of a cross-library dedicated cleaning slot without wasting 5unit slot

Allow allocation of a cross-library dedicated cleaning slot (shared by all libs/tapes) without wasting 5unit slot. Generically, and possibly, allow also for logical libraries to be partitioned using an atomic unit less than 5slot (i.e. single slots).
almost 4 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 0 Future consideration

Prioritization of mmrestripefs -r block rebuilds

When a FPO mmrestripefs -r kicks off it should prioritize rebuilding blocks that have 2 duplicates missing over blocks that only have one duplicate missing.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Media read error to trigger auto rewrite

When a media read error is reported by a device a read from another replica should be followed by a rewrite to the original device to allow the devices LBA to use a different part of the device.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Option to avoid down drives

Option: when a device is down allows writes to blocks on the device to go to a different device rather than create a missed update. This protects the file system from large numbers of missed update blocks and retains full replica count.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Allow for separation of client services from storage services

Allow for the optional separation of the gpfs mmfsd process into a client process mmfscd independent of the gpfs storage process mmfssd. When something goes wrong with I/O subsystem in one node the applications on that node should still be able to...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

Need to internally archive audit logs when removing cluster data

When a T3 recovery is performed, cluster logs for the previous instance of the system are destroyed. This means if a malicious user were to perform unauthorized changes, then do a T3 recovery, that the audit trail documenting said actions is lost....
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

check computability of Line tape version 3 .0.60 VS Kernel 3.10.0-1160.25.1.el7.x86_64 , 3.10.0-1160.el7.x86_64 OS RHEL 7.9

Hi Team as advised by PFE Ref to case TS011516098 to open RPQ Ref to old case TS006661327 Devlopment and PFE advised to upgrade from line tape 3.0.56-1.x86_64 to line tape version 3.0.60 in the coming PMN to overcome issue of CPU hang /TSM server ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

SPP integration n the IBM Resiliency Orchestration tools (IRO/CRO)

We have an urgent request from a Bank in Spain in UK to have IBM SPP integrated in the IBM Resiliency Orchestration tools (IRO/CRO) We heard that there are plans fro Q3 2019 but the customer will not accept this and wants the integration to happen...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

FCM - Managing Multiple SQL instances from one console

There are 2 instances of SQL which have been configured with 2 separate optfiles as per the old standard however the Flashcopy manager gui defaults to use the dsm.opt file in c:\program files\tivoli\tsm\tdpsql folder. We need to have separate shor...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Planned for future release

Describe how to install/upgrade purchased DAE/DME license files when first using Spectrum Scale Developer Edition

Client wants to install Spectrum Scale Developer Edition today while waiting to receive their DME licenses. Requesting documentation which describes how to install/upgrade purchased DAE/DME license files when Spectrum Scale Developer Edition is cu...
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration