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Tape 7700 CUIR Function Enhancement - Vary one device Online for testing purpose while the Cluster in Service Mode

First: What is it? Vary one device Online for testing purpose while the Cluster in Service Mode using CUIR Function before bring the Cluster back to Online mode using GUI. At Now, we bring the Cluster in Service Prep, then finish what need to be d...
7 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 3 Not under consideration

Monitor Spectrum Archive components in mmhealth

Spectrum Archive is missing from mmhealty. Please add monitoring of services and sub-component status similar to tiering to cloud. Lots of library, drive, cartridge and task statuses are easily available from the eeadm command.
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

extend dependent/independent fileset max. limits by factor 10 - better by factor 40

Extend the current limits of maximum number of dependent and independent filesets (1000 / 10000) min. by a factor 10 and best by factor 40.
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Allow for more than 1 concurrent expiration processes

A further expiration process can't be started if already an expiration process is running. Customer have 4 windows cluster systems with a huge system state. Expiration for these client nodes run a couple of days.This prevents a daily expiration pr...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

DeferredDeletion per INODE filespace

When an user deletes his files in a GPFS file system the inodes are freed directly, but for the data blocks an DeferredDeletion process is triggered which will delete the related data blocks in a background process. The quota usage of this user/gr...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect for VE restore only one disk, default space issue

Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Restore Issue. The product design only permits these options when you want to restore only one individual unit like c: 1. If the target guest does not exist yet, space will be assigned on the datastore for...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Add ability to specify cluster as target for TSM4VE restores

Make it possible to specify ESXi cluster and storage cluster names when restoring VM in TSM4VE
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Add support for TSM Server instances to be managed by systemd on Linux.

We require support for TSM Server instances to be properly managed by systemd on Linux. This would require the creation and distribution of a proper service unit file.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

lin_tape driver for Ubuntu is outdated, any plans to update in the near future?

lin_tape driver is needed for all IBM LTO tape drives and libraries. We have applications running on Ubuntu and need a current version of the driver. With the current version we are stuck to Ubuntu 20.04 and can't move forward.
7 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

SPP PLUS: FUNCTION TO OPEN/BROWSE ANY .EDB FILE AND EXTRAC ITS CONTENT INTO PST FILES WITHOUT EXCHANGE/API MMC(GUI)

Develop a function for SPP PLUS software to read raw Exchange .EDB files without interaction with Exchange/API and browse the database content to extract all the mailboxes into PST files simultaneously.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration