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Minimize impact to DS8K when replacing an VRM

The customer had to replace failed VRMs in a DS8000 machine. After the VRM replacement and when passing from single CEC to dual CEC the redistibution of cache and NVS caused noticeable service impact. Please see PMH 46510,200,838. The customer wou...
about 8 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Changing the default path of the Staging directory

The following technote describes a case in which files stored in the staging directory are deleted:http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21692439 Instead of looking for workarounds, in the form of setting a different location in the dsm...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

TS7700 forced premigration

Today premigration of a virtual volume in a TS7700 can be delayed with a storage class setting to delay to some future point in time. However, there is no control currently to prepone premigration or to specify a timeout when premigration has to o...
about 8 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Not under consideration

Support for Sony Library ODS-L30M

Support for Sony optical libraries (Sony ODS-L30M).Increase the support list in optical libraries for Spectrum Protect (TSM)
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

"-all"-Flag for "repairvdiskcopy -resync"

Enhancement for the command "repairvdisk -resync" with a flag "-all", which automatically includes all vdiskcopies which are not in sync.
about 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Add client backup status, backup files, size, date details for report with dashboard to understand backup failure and success

Product Tivoli Fastbackup for workstations 7.1.4.0 We are unable to get correct meaning full report on low level for TFB clients.1.We want report with client name, user identity, start date of backup, last backup date, last backup error, successfu...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Not under consideration

Request for Function to decompress data for Storage Pool Migration

Request for function to decompress Data for Storage Migration pool. Currently, we have difficulty to migrate the Data backed up in Physical Tape Drive to new VTL Drive (Protectier + XIV) Data backed up in current Physical Tape Drive is compress by...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

RFE for support of "mmafmctl <filesystem> failoverToSecondary ?j <fileset> --norestore" within mmcesdr

AFM-based DR support a “--norestore” option when invoking # mmafmctl <filesystem> failoverToSecondary –j <fileset> --norestore e.g. secondary# mmafmctl kyc2 failoverToSecondary -j sec02 --norestorePrimary Id (afmPrimaryId) 149423358914...
about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

Obtaining SnapDiff backup base snapshot name

When running an incremental SnapDiff backup on NetApp volumes from the BA client, a differential snapshot is created on the NetApp in the beginning of each backup, and compared with the base snapshot remained from the previous backup. On the end o...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

NTACL transfer function with Spectrum Scale 4.2.0.3

With Spectrum Scale 4.2.0.3, the security attribute called NTACL is not transferred from Cache to Home using AFM function. This attribute used to be transferred with GPFS 4.1.0.7 which is used by the customer.
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

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