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Add GUI option to view, select and modify mirror write priority of Volumes

Currently it is not possible to specify the mirror write priority parameter in the GUI during Volume Creation. The system allows two options for mirrored volumes: latency (which is the default) and redundancy. In some customer environments it is c...
7 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Safe Guarded Copy - Enhance the Product to Allow SGC to Reduce or Increase Multipliers as Data on Volumes Increases or Decreases.

The amount of data on our volumes can fluctuate up or down daily. A multiplier of three on a volume may be sufficient one day but be too small the next day, resulting in a failed backup. We then must increase the multiplier on that volume to preve...
11 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Planned for future release

Avoid to damage good tape media by bad drive

In Baidu hyper scale tape storage system, we met many cases that good tape cartridges is marked to bad status because of bad drive. For example, drive1 is bad, Archive EE still uses it to write or read data and get the error result, Archive EE wil...
4 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Future consideration

Implement a way for TSM admins to report stgpool usage over a period of time, for example, a data point daily for the last year.

TSM administrators need to be able to predict when new hardware must be purchased, and a usage trend will facilitate that.
10 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Need to improve the speed of deleting a large number of small files

when deleting a large number of small files, most of the deleted ones are reclaimed in the background asynchronous process of fullscandeletion, but the process of space reclamation is relatively slow
10 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

Update Certificate without restarting Storage Protect instance

Currently if the certificate is going to be replaced by a new one, this operation requires an instance stop and start. The certificate insertion into the certificate DB can be done at any time, also setting it as the default certificate. But the i...
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

New implemented setting for customer NTP-Server without possibility changing timezone in Rel. 9.4.26

With the new TSSC Release 9.4.26 there is now a possibility to configure customers NTP-Server for time synchronization on the console time UI.However, there is no chance to justify the correct timezone. This leads for example to different timezone...
about 1 month ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Archive batch selective_recall tasks should utilize duplicate tapes if primary copy is on invalid tape

Our archive system is set to write files to two tape pools for redundancy (and offsiting). Sometimes we will have a recall where tape 1 copy (set a) is on a tape that needs to go thru validation or has some other reason to not be considered valid....
3 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Is a defect

Requesting Storage Defender Development team to expedite development of support for Defender Sensors for Aix Os

In most of the engagements in select accounts in India , there is at least a 50 % prevalence of Aix hosts , I suspect the case to be similar for multiple accounts in ISA & APAC region. While currently we have sensors for Rhel 9 , Suse & Ub...
4 months ago in Storage Defender 6 Future consideration

Add the possibility for SP4VE to be able to force the format of the VM drives, during restores, to EAGER ZEROED.

(See case number TS016942043 for details) Even though VM disks are formatted as thick eager zeroed, SP4VE formats them as lazy zeroed during restores. This causes problems on the VCenter's end and additional work for the VM administrators.
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Under review

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