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export to tape from directory-container storage pools.

I would like to see an export function that enables me to export to tape from directory-container storage pools. Export to tape is only possible from a sequential pool now days, but I would like to do it from container storage.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Delivered

retenrule with individual filespaces

The new feature retention rule does not allow to define individual filespaces for an BA/aR Client.This parameter is only supported for vm backups.The feature retention rule / retention sets should be an alternative to the backupsets.The backupset ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

vdisk_protection_enabled in IBM i PowerHA environments

IBM i has many functions where LUNs are automatically unmapped or flashed on storage systems.e.g. DB2 Mirror (when creating the initial flash), PowerHA (IASP) LUN switching, ...These fully automated functions do not work properly when vdisk_protec...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Monitor volumes occupation via IBM Block Storage CSI (container storage interface) driver

My customer wants to request an enhancement to IBM Block Storage CSI (container storage interface) driver. In summary my customer is using OCP 4.6 (openshift container platform) and they use the metering system provided by the product (Prometheus)...
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

TCP Window size - update default to 0 on platforms with auto tuning

Both the TSM server and TSM client has an option named TCPWINDOWSIZE that tunes the TCP window size.<br /><br />Most of us would expect that the default would be 0, ie go with the operating system default settings. This is not the case...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Delivered

Improve Logical Block Protection performance by using faster CRC implementation

The Logical Block Protection (LBP) feature in Spectrum Protect (TSM) is currently limiting performance when used with current generation tape drives. In production we see around 360 MB/s without LBP enabled, degrading to around 200 MB/s with LBP e...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

Request to change the capacitor quality in the Storage Enclosure Midplane.

<Customer>Japan Post Insurance Co., Ltd. (Kampo) <Summary of the Request>Request to change the capacitor quality in the Storage Enclosure Midplane.
almost 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Delivered

Minimizing IO delays when a node in a SVC cluster goes down or restarts.

System: The customer's large production systems where SVC is used Actor: Users requesting to improve the quality of SVC SVC is used to manage the customer's large storage systems which are used by many mission critical servers. To minimize IO fail...
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Re-enable host IO-group selection while adding a new host via the GUI for 8.4.0.x and up

Re-enable selection of IO-group during host creation in SVC code 8.4.x and up
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Option to reduce verbosity of NFSv4 ACLs and use standard format

When using NFSv4 ACLs the Spectrum Scale commands use a verbose format to describe each ACL entry, rather than the standard single line as per the NFSv4 standard. This request is to have a command line argument to the ACL commands (mmeditacl, mmge...
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

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