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Support LTFS 2.5 Function incremental Index

To enhance the migration Performance and reducing the overhead on update the index partition on tape the function incremental index should be implemented.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Planned for future release

Enhance recovery function for Spectrum Archive

In Spectrum Archive there are a missing recovery function to reimport the structure of the fs, the zero byte files and a procedure to reimport the ltfsee tape after a disaster or a loss of the filesystems on spectrum scale. The function should be ...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Not under consideration

Storing File Permission and ACL on LTFS

Because of our security requirement we want to store the file and acl permissions, owner and group info already for the files that are migrated to tape with spectrum archive.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Future consideration

Enabling LTFS file system quotas at user or group level

Without a user or group quota on LTFS file system, all the HPC cluster users can save their data on LTFS without any limits.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Not under consideration

include tape pool in eeadm drive list

In eeadm drive list command, try to include options to print a more information, like: - Include a column with Node Name instead of Node ID for clarity- Include a column with the tape pool name of the tape mounted
over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Not under consideration

eeadm show task show progress of files migrated

When a migration task start and a lot of files are inside the task to migrate, no progress is shown about how many files have been migrated already to know how much time a task will take to finish or how is advancing.
over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Future consideration

SOBAR like recovery for Spectrum Archive

Large Spectrum Archive installation cannot afford backing up files twice so file replication on different tapes is being used.Spectrum Scale Metadata becomes critical as any corruption due to software or harware error may produce a long outage to ...
over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Planned for future release

Spectrum Archive support for AFM DR

Hi, A Large Spectrum Scale customer in Israel who use AFM DR, asked us to find him a solution for archiving in the primary site. the customer asking this because he has more than 1PB relevant for archive in production site and he is willing to inv...
over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Not under consideration

OS/2 Warp 3.0 (snafu diskette)

I had tried OS/2 Warp 3.0 back when it came out. It was not installable back when I first tried it. I read a review of OS/2 Warp 3.0 shortly before OS/2 Warp 4.0 was due to come out (the next month the article was from). The review was rough, and ...
about 6 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 4 Not under consideration

Add missing return codes to dsmrc.h for Tivoli Storage Manager to assist customers in problem determination

Return codes such as 362 and 363 are not documented for example so PMRs must be opened for proper problem determination. More cost efficient for customers if documented at: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSGSG7_7.1.8/api/r_ret_code...
over 6 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Not under consideration

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