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Improve NQR Performance

When doing an NQR on Nodes with tens of millions of files, the initial TSM database search and sort operation which takes place on the server takes several hours. We noticed that the hardware resource utliziation (CPU, DB2 Disks) is not very high ...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Fine(r) grained RBAC model

As of today Spectrum is having hability to grant rights according to end user profile. A user can be for example a collection admin or a data user having then a set of predefined permissions. Would it be possible to assign finer permissions based ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Control Storage Consumer report does not work when using DRP on SVC

Storage consumer report can use Capcacity or Allocated Spaces on volumes when generating a report. Allocated space on a volume is not counted when using DRP (Data Reduction Pool) on a storage system and reported as 0. It is not possible to determi...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Future consideration

Need qualification of Ganesha NFS with Spectrum Scale for FileNet customers

FileNet Content Manager uses NFS to access Spectrum Scale to score document content. Customers can run FileNet Content Manager in a traditional environment or in a containerized environment. In the Containerized environment, Kubernetes provides a ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Copy Data Management: integrated data masking is not available with virtual servers

The data masking feature is not supported with virtual servers, only physical servers.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Have the ability to choose the backup node in oracle

Spectrum protect plus does not currently have the ability to choose the preferred node for backups in the case of oracles like in the exchange for example, and we have this in question for some customers, who do not want to change in oracle
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Flashcopy Manager Snapshot Support for Spectrum Virtualize in a Hyperswap Relationship

Currently FCM snapshot support is only established for Spectrum Virtualize within SVC in a stretched cluster setup. We need support for snapshots for the whole Flashsystem/SVC family within a Hyperswap relation, adressing IBM AIX, VMware, Linux an...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Future consideration

RFE: Allow file system ?-n? attribute to be changed

When a Spectrum Scale file system is created, several parameters must be specified that can not be changed after the fact. One of these is the “-n” parameter giving an estimate of the number of systems that will be mounting a file system, directly...
about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

TSM is not supproted on p7 except in p6 compatibility mode

TSM on p7 hardware requires that you run the LPAR in p6 compatibility mode. This is a Java/DB2 limitation during the install or upgrade. This limitation should be fixed as it nullifies the reason for migrating to better/faster hardware. http://www...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Manufacturing Reset

Client would like the ability to put the library back in a Manufacturing Factory Reset state with a CLI command rather than needing IBM Service to clear the existing configuration.
almost 5 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

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