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    RENAME DEVCLASS

    We have to rename some tape based DEVICE CLASSES for organizational reasons.Unfortunately, there is no RENAME DEVCLASS command defined. The DEVICE CLASSES mentioned have storage pools with large amounts of archive data (many PB)with expiration tim...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    ARM Support in Spectrum Scale

    The Jülich Supercompting Centre is running HPC compute resources for the European Science community. The storage solution is based of a central Spectrum Scale storage cluster which is mounted on ~8.000 compute nodes using GPFS remote cluster mount...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

    Ownership transfer of virtual volsers

    I would like to see a more robust process of changing the ownership of volsers, before the unjoin process, or just balancing, if needed. Thanks.
    4 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

    IBMTOOLs update VEHAUDIT report 4 digit year

    I know IBM is working on updated IBMTOOLs libraries. I would like to see the dates expanded in the IBMTOOLs report VEHAUDIT so it has a 4 digit year. Thank you.
    4 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 4 Needs more information

    SPP CONTROL BACKUP BY DATASTORE THRESHOLD

    In Spectrum Protect for VE, one can configure "VMDATASTORETHRESHOLD" in order to control if Snapshots/Backups will be processed in the Datastore level. e.g: VMDATASTORETHRESHOLD 90 means that the Hypervisor will not process any snapshot in a datas...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Planned for future release

    Support custom URL for S3 storage integration with AFM

    We would like AFM COS S3 integration to allow custom URLs for the S3 storage. The product we use to provide S3 storage requires custom URLs, and as such, currently can't be integrated into AFM. Any user groups who also have custom URLs for S3 stor...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Ability to install Vintela on SPP + VSNAP servers for user access

    The customer would like to have the ability to install Vintela on the SPP and VSNAP servers in their environment. This is to grant access to the team that supports SPP without having to give out the superuser or create a local account for each per...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Power Consumption and Energy Statistic Reports

    As with most companies nowadays, we have a very large focus on our environmental impact. Keeping track of our power consumption and carbon output is very important and it's something I would like to see added to be available from a PE-Pack for DAS...
    about 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

    TS7770 - Add a description field to the category define area allowing us to name our categories in a GRID.

    It allows the engineer to quickly identify in the MI, who the categories belong to when sharing a GRID with multiple sysplex's. The description would be editable.
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Add backup storage reporting on TSM Policy Domain level to TSM Operation Center

    Enhancing TSM Operation Center with of view of backup storage per Policy Domain. This would allow backup administrators to understand better their storage growth based on their organizational structure. Furthermore it supports the usage of TSM Pol...
    almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Not under consideration

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