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Spectrum Control - Add a capacity planning modeling function

IBM Spectrum Control uses capacity information to provide an estimated zero capacity date. I would request that this same information be utilized to allow customers to perform capacity planning modeling. Current workaround: Perform this manually u...
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 2 Not under consideration

LISTING/PREVIEW of ALL tapes required for a RETRIEVE or a RESTORE

Retrieve and Restore function should have preview option to list the volumes which will be required for the Restore or Retrieve;
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Server command to change/migrate node config from one TSM instance/server to another

When running a TSM environment with multiple servers and TSM instances on each server - and not always having direct access on all clients - it will be useful if a TSM administrator could issue a server command to tell a client to change its confi...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Hierarchical fileset quotas option

Add an option to mmcrfileset and/or mmchfileset where you can specify whether or not you want the fileset quota usage of all child filesets to "roll up" and be applied to quotas of any/all of their parent filesets. This probably makes the most sen...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Support for RoW on snapshots

Redirect on Write (RoW) is a less space consuming option for snapshots (at potential expense of more workload required for deletions).
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Enable Aspera for Spectrum Protect on Power Linux server

The customer has ISP on Power AIX server and want to enhance BCP between two sites with low bandwidth.I understand that Linux on IA server is supported.But this customer want to get end to end support from IBM.And we also want to exclude competito...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

CTDB recovery timeout improvement

Multiple protocol nodes are stuck in wait state when pn01 is selected to be the master recovery causing loss of access of the whole cluster. However pn01 is hung and stuck due to kernel oops issue. After pn01 is rebooted and no GPFS running, pn03 ...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Enclosure-loss protection on Storwize V7000

Please implement contra-rotating SAS cabling for connections from Controller enclosure to drive enclosures. This gives additional failure protection and avoids enclosure interdependencies caused by "daisy-chain" connections. DS4000 / DS5000 custom...
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Snapshot (FCM) support for DB2 PureScale (restore deprecated support)

This request is to restore support for DB2 PureScale snapshots in Spectrum Protect Snapshot for DB2 V8.1 onward. The client has a need to utilize fully supported Spectrum Protect (formerly FCM) snapshots for HA/DR in a supported DB2 PureScale envi...
about 7 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration

Make GPFS GUI port configurable

We would like to have the GPFS GUI port configurable to something different from 443.
about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

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