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Rebuild used extents with DRAID

The current design in DRAID is rebuild all of exents,even most of extents don't have real data.Customer hope to DRAID can support optimize mode that only rebuild used space.With optimize mode, rebuild time can be shortened significantly. This is v...
about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

change of MgmtClass in VTS 7760 should automatically activate CopyExport without z/OS mount required

We were implementing CopyExport with VTS7760 and deceided to take over all tape datasets in our VTS (~68000) to CopyExport Volumes (all Tape data ever produced). For that the ManagementClass of each tape must be changed to a MC which is using Copy...
9 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Not under consideration

SI Data Collector Status Provides Misleading Information

The SI Data Collector Configuration page provides various pieces of status information, including the number of candidates and monitored nodes. It also as a column that reads "unreachable." I opened a support case (TS007958840) to find out why the...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Planned for future release

VM's with virtual NVME Controller should be supported for backup and restore in TSM4VE

VM's with virtual NVME Controller should be supported for backup and restore.API error message : The device '3' is referring to a nonexisting controller '31,000'.Case TS001855546
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Proof of Tape encryption

Since IBM made the decision to remove encryption from TSM4VE backups, we were forced to enable physical tape encryption for client data. There is currently no means to verify that a physical volume has been encrypted. The only method within Spectr...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Add Spectrum Virtualize (SVC) lslicense information to Spectrum Control

Add a report to Spectrum Control which gives an overview of the required licenses for all monitored SVC clusters. (SVC CLI lslicense output). The current SCU license overview (settings->licensing) are the licenses needed for Spectrum Control wh...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Future consideration

Protection of namespaces under AKS - Azure Kubernetes Services

We have customer in Brazil which would like to protect just the namespaces which they have on AKS, storing this backup on Azure Object Storage. Currently, SPP does not support AKS.
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

AFM for Object Storage Support

We have a large set of science data that we save on our IBM Spectrum Scale system and to be able to reduce the amount of spinning fast disk are we using IBM Spectrum Archive to extend our storage to tape. But now does our data science people ask u...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Ability to configure start time for SPP "inventory" jobs

Customer requires functionality to configure start time for SPP inventory jobs.Default Application Server InventoryDefault Hypervisor Inventory
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Scale AFM support for GCP

AFM file/object copy to GCP. Better: use AFM to TIER to GCP
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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