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Spectrum Scale ECE - Need quota feature to support limiting the resource usage on different storage pools

In more and more projects, we are delivering GPFS file systems with multiple storage pools for teiring. And our customers keep asking for quota limitation of each user/group/fileset on different storage pools, because different pools have differen...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

ODBC Enhancements for TSM 6.3

To enable access to data from the TSM Database, TSM until Version 5 enabledODBC using a TSM administrative user with limited authority. Since TSM6,ODBC is via the DB2 ODBC connect.The TSM ODBC connect documentation only describes TSM ODBC access u...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Use transactional write model and issue periodic disk cache flushes

GPFS (at least on Linux) does not attempt to flush the cache of the block devices to which it is writing. It relies on O_DIRECT to bypass host write cache but this does not guarantee data has been flushed to stable media. This RFE requests that GP...
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect should have an oracle agent that replaces RMAN entirely, so proper object metadata can be handled internally, allow proper expeiration, retsets, etc.

Spectrum Protect has long been plagued by retention problems with Oracle backups. RMAN owns all of the metadata, and keeping this in sync requires sync tools, etc. In large environments, often the DBA team and the Backup team are separated. This l...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

vDisks eaytier setting for balance only mode

Given a multi tier (easytier) MDG/pool with restricted and minimal capacity in the high performance tier **. Some vdisks having only warm extents shall not use the high performance tier but still should use the "intra tier balance" feature. vDisks...
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Centralized reporting for Tivoli FlashCopy Manager

We would like to request a centralized reporting facility for Tivoli FlashCopy Manager, specifically FlashCopy Manager for Exchange 2010 first, if possible (although all applications managed by FCM would benefit). This reporting facility would be ...
about 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

CAN SE CLIENTNAME=<NODE_NAME>

When running tsm command:Q SE CLIENTNAME=<NODE_NAME>The output can be a numbers of sessions.Therefore it would be great to cancel all sessions in one command:CAN SE CLIENTNAME=<NODE_NAME>
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Improvements to Client Update targeting in Operations Center

The new automatic client updates built into Spectrum Protect Operations Center (OC) 8.1.3 does not currently support targeting of supported versions, nor filtering by OS version in order to do so manually. There are two improvements I would like t...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

TSM for VE - DP for VMware - Tag support

The ability to exlude or include VMs based on tags, or take tags into consideration somehow. Regardless of what cluster they live in, look at tags to determine what to do.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

SP4VE Vmware: Duplicate UUIDs support for UI / File level recovery

SP4VE Vmware: Duplicate UUIDs support for UI / File level recovery for linux mountproxies
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

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