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Deligate tasks (migration) to data mover servers

When IBM TSM is used for archiving petabytes of data for long term, massive data migration is expected specially when changing media technology. Today, the migration process can only happen on the server, and thus creates a huge load on the server...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale to support quota management on external Storage pool.

Request Spectrum Scale to support quota management on external Storage pool.
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Support Spectrum Protect for Space Management in Spectrum Scale 5.0 on Linux for System Z architectures

We need support of Spectrum Protect for space management (HSM) in Spectrum Scale 5.0 in Zlinux architectures.
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect backup of massive sparse file /var/log/lastlog on linux

From the customer: I found five RedHat-based Linux clients that were ultimately waiting for tape mounts because they were trying to back up the massive sparse file /var/log/lastlog. This file reports as being 480GB in size, even though it is actua...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Warning message in actlog when active log exceeds threshold

When active log exceeds threshold of 75% warning message ADM10501W (Health indicator "Log Utilization" ("db.log_util") breached the "upper" warning threshold of "75 %" with value "75 %" on "database" "xxxx.TSMDB1") is issued to db2diag log but the...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Tool to Monitor IO per application from client nodes.

Tool to Monitor IO per application from client nodes. Similar to mmdiag –iohist, or better - output json to be gathered by api's.Monitor the block-size read/write per applicationMonitor the IO pattern per application – rand/read/seq etc.Monitor pa...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Remote Cloning support for ProtecTIER native replication setups (will also work for all alternatively replicated data)

Implement support for Remote Cloning of "alternatively" replicated data. This request ist written with having IBM ProtecTIER native replication in mind.Implement some kind of "single domain behaviour" into TSM to have a TSM storage agent running o...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 6 Not under consideration

Spectrum Virtualize VSS provider has to support Hyperswap configurations

There are currently limitations in the VSS HW provider used with IBM Flashsystem 9100 in Hyperswap configuration. This prevents Spectrum Protect Snapshot from supporting these configurations.
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Consistent VDisk copy protection during ESC Incremental Resynch and/or Volume Migration

During volume migration and volume copy incremental synchronization in stretch cluster configurations, until the second copy is consistent again, the loss of the primary site will command restoring data from tape backup into the second site capaci...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

FTP and HTTP CES support

Support FTP and HTTP access on CES protocol nodes.
about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration