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Lun expansion without deleting existing mirror relationship

Enable the posibility of lun expansion for luns that are in a mirror relationship.
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

More Groups in Spectrum Scale for AIX

Currently under Spectrum Scale Server for AIX 4.2.x the products supports only 128 AIX Groups but in all other OS much more like Windows and Linux. We Need urgently the support of more Group id's
almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 6 Delivered

Enhance SVC to provide virtual FC ports to remove dependancy on multipath driver during upgrades

Need to enhance SVC design to meet stringent customer functional requirement currently not achievable by SVC core design.
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Increase granularity of per-client attributes to per-filesystem (or per-fileset?)

There are several settings in Spectrum Scale which have a per-client scope which could benefit from having per-filesystem scope (or a per-filesystem, per-client scope). Of these, we are primarily interested in flushOnClose becoming more granular (...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Increase number of compressed volumes in an I/O group to beyond 512

The current limit of 512 compressed volumes per I/O group imposes challenges in the field with customers that want to increase coverage of compression in their environment by increasing the number of compressed volumes that they already use. In ma...
about 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

TSM in native P7 compatibility mode

We are purchaseing p720 servers as our TSM servers. We want to be able to use POWER7™ in POWER7™ compatibility mode.​​ Currently if using POWER7™ it needs to be in POWER6™ compatibility mode.​​
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Backup of TSM / Spectrum Protect Directory Container Pools

The new directory container storage pools are unable to perform migrations to other storage pools. This can be "hacked", if you will, by backing up the directory container files themselves to another storage pool that can migrate to tape devices. ...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

Add multiple recipients to receive mail from SPP

When adding SMTP information to SPP can we add multiple recipients to receive emails?
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

Storwize Family - IP Replication - Required command with advanced options - ping -i , traceroute, telnet

There is a need for the availability of the following commands on the Storwize codes especially for the purpose of configuring/troubleshooting IP based replication. 1. ping command including advanced options- ping -i 2. traceroute command uncludin...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

Rename kafka and zookeeper resources for LWE to avoid conflicts with existing distro/user packages

GPFS provides installations for apache kafka and zookeeper software are part of mmmsgqueue/LWE/filesystem audit functionality. Existing user environments which employ tools which rely on access to zookeeper, using standard provided library interfa...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered