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TSM FileClient for high resolution displays

We use Lenovo X1 Notebooks with high resolution displays. The TSM Fileclient on the Notebooks with Windows 10 is tiny. Other application fit or could scale to the resolution.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

Scale IP balancing code with NFS and Samba

Nfs crash on protocol nodes brings down samba with ces root. "While waiting for the abrt trigger, please investigate why NFS crashes bring down Samba. There are cases that NFS crashes do not bring down Samba in the past.
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

NSD client IO should have a time-out and a retry tunable per filesystem (JUMP Trading LLC)

The current Spectrum Scale configuration does not give the customer the ability to provide a timeout or retry values to NSD client IO. Since these tuning parameters do not exist, this can result in hung IOs or unexpected IO errors when the NSD ser...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale DMAPI Locking issues

mmap calls are allowed against files where we have acquired DM_RIGHT_EXCLUSIVE, as long as the handle used for mmap was opened before the exclusive right was acquired. Acquiring DM_RIGHT_EXCLUSIVE access on a file with current active mmaps succeed...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Reduce Spectrum Protect Operatin Center query to bring down load on SP database

Regarding TS004537647. That is correct that there's no issue with finishing the daily work in a timely matter. There are some tunables to reduce the frequency of queries or stop them altogether. One of the background threads that is the busiest is...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Not under consideration

TSM V6 database Reorg Status

The requirement is to be able to report the status and progress of database Reorg from within TSM rather than through DB2 (e.g. query database f=d - is it finished and if not how much more to run). Also it would be good to be able to schedule reor...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Notification of events related to the temperature of SVC cluster nodes in the Storage Management (GUI).

We need to view on the Storage Management or a event log, the events related with the temperature threshold of the SVC nodes.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

SVC Snaps - customer related info

SVC Snaps contains data such as IP , host names .customer request to remove the sensitive data from snaps
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

TSM Meta Data Only Replication

TSM Meta Data only replication
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

EasyTier pool - import of image mode with tier level designation

when migrating client environments in a newly deployed, EasyTier enabled environments, space restraints make an import of the existing client data impossible. a typical space proportion would be 10% flash, 30% enterprise and 60% nearline. When imp...
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

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