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CONVERT STGPOOL should have an option to convert only data for a node or node group

Spectrum Protect CONVERT STGPOOL should have an option which allows the user to specify that data for only a node or node group be converted into container pool storage WITHOUT setting the entire pool to a readonly-state. The process of conversion...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

TSM B/A Client "archive vm" equivalent of "backup vm"

In the current TSM b/a client for windows (with VMware tools), there is a "backup vm" command that will perform full image or file level backups for VM guests. There is no option to perform an archive (file level or image) We need the ability to a...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Need support of Power 8/9 Compression HW chip on AIX Client for TSM Client

Hellowe have implemented a new Backup LAN with CISCO ACI Network 40 GBit and made backup over this seperate lan to tsm serverWe need to do a compression on the TSM Client side because the TSM Servers has currently not the capabilities to store unc...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Check pool usage in units of "fileset"

My client company is a customer who uses "fileset" in a wide variety.The customer is using "ess3200" and "ess5000" divided into "system pool" and "data1 pool".The customer has transferred the data from "system pool" in "fileset" to "data1 pool".Ho...
9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Ability to set a low water mark used capacity threshold for flash/SCM tiers.

Hypothetical Use case: Easy tier hybrid pool with tier 0 flash, tier 1 flash and tier nearline. In the current scenario, when a lot of cold data resides on tier 1, these extents will be migrated to nearline regardless of whether tier 1 extents are...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

release empty volumes on migration process

In Spectrum Protect the data are stored on the primary storage pool. if filled up, a migration process is triggered to move the data to the next storage pool (e.g. from disk to tape). This migration process creates a list of volumes of the primary...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Increase Performance of RMAN/TDPO backups and minimize crosscheck initiated sessions

after upgrade of BA Client and TDPO to 7.1.8 /8.1.2 Client level we have a massive performance problem which was caused by thousends of sessions initiated by RMAN Cross Check.As long we are using Dedup in target pool the change of filesperset opti...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Not under consideration

Protocols: Support a PAM configuration supporting winbindd and Active Directory, not local accounts only, on ces nodes.

Currently protocol nodes using Active Directory authentication don't support accounts from AD when you connect with ssh. The needed pam_winbind.so pam module is not provided by scale/protocols. Only local accounts work. Maintaining local admin acc...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

RPO Timestamp with Global Mirror recovery

We recently converted from MzGM to MGM. With MzGM, XRC provided an extremely granular timestamp on XRECOVER that told us what the specific RPO of our application data was. Along with RTO, RPO is one of the single most important concepts for Disast...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Deliver Spectrum Connect as container image (Docker)

Customers are very considered by the demand for root access to install Spectrum Connect. At some customers its impossible to get around this demand.One way around it would be to deliver a Dicker image of the product.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

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