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Change in DB/View structure for Proxy agent/target and nodegroup/node relations

Have relational information between nodes/nodegroups - and proxy-agents/targets stored in tables (or presented in views) - instead of comma-seperated lists.
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Operation Center - limit resource usage

Operation Center should have a way to limit the resource that it could use from the servers. By not having, this simple monitoring tool can put the production enviroenment in danger, using far more resources that it should.
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 3 Not under consideration

Delete induvidial export from volhistory or delete based on device class

My customer created all monthly and yearly data via export especially for TSM for VE data. Tapes should be expired after a year luckly 2 diffrent mngmt classes used for monthly and yearly. 1st issue TSM can not delete individual export volumes onl...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

allow deduplicated tape copy pools for storage pool backup purposes

Currently, only FILE pools can be deduplicated and TAPE pools can not. The reason is that a restore from a deduplicated TAPE pool would be unuseable due to excessive number of tape mounts. We understand this. However, we would still like to see th...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Compression for Virtualize is Selective

Virtualize/Storwize Compression is selective by nature; meaning that it will allow you to compress data which will cause performance impact despite being able to identify non-compressible data. This leads to many performance related impacts.
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

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

TSM Client suport for Solaris on X86

TSM client support for TSM 6.3 on Solaris x86
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

Change how SVC GUI pool percentages are calculated

Currently, the SVC GUI calculates pool utilization (volumes by pool section) by utilized / virtual capacity. This gives you a false sense of utilization because if you're overprovisioned, you will hit the physical capacity and the pool will go rea...
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

support filesystem metadata migration to 4K-based NSDs

Provide a transparent (e.g. no downtime) mechanism to introduce NSDv2 4k-aligned metadata NSDs into filesystems created with NSDv1 format NSDs.
about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

virtualized WindowsCluster protection by TSM for VE and FCM

WindowsClusters can not be realized as snapshot by Vpshere is disabled by Vpshere itself. Snapshot API by Vsphere is used by TSM for VE and FCM .
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

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