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    Multiple transfer streams between pools for data from a single node

    We use a TSM system where the nodes/clients push data first to disk, then the TSM server migrate the data from disk to tape.We have several use cases where nodes periodically push data faster than the ~350MB/s that our tape drives (TS1150) can han...
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Change behaviour of "move nodedata" command so that when the destination storage pool has a copy storage pool setup data is moved to both primary and copy storage pools

    Being able to "move nodedata" to both a destination storage pool and its copy storage pool would be useful to maintain at least to copies of the data when moving data. Using the backup storage pool command can sync both source and copy storage poo...
    9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Needs more information

    Support BSD groups semantics

    Customer is migrating from Isilon, which supports configuring the BSD group semantincs meaning that new files inherit the group id of the parent group. Some file systems on linux support the "grpid" or "bsdgroups" mount option to enable same seman...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    See current system time in Gui when NTP is set.

    Would like to be able to see the current system time in Gui on the NTP Tab, even if we have the possibility to use svqueryclock in Cli. Will make PD easier when comparing the time in tasks and events.
    over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

    To enable option within SPP for setting multipe bandwidth throttle limits

    At the moment, SPP has the option only to set single throttle limit for replication & copy operations, but will it be better to allow the option to have multiple bandwidths throttling limits, during varied time schedules. Example as below: Bus...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Future consideration

    Support of HyperV VM tags to select resources to backup

    Ability to select the resources to backup based on VM tags in a HyperV environment (same functionality as for VMware)
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Launch CLI from GUI

    I have received multiple requests from my customers to add the ability to launch the FlashSystem CLI from the GUI like other IBM products. Please consider adding this simple change.
    over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

    A flexible way to prestage LV into VTS cache

    Today, there is no native zOS utility available that recalls(prestages) all the needed LogicalVolumes in an effective and automated way back into the VTS cache.
    over 5 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Add reasoning to hidden mmhealth events

    When applying gpfs updates it sometime happens that new TIPS events appear. Some of these tips recomment to carefully check the situation and maybe hide the event. It would be really helpful if you could add a user specifiend comment th the hide c...
    9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    Option to choose pop-up window placement for optimized experience

    I think it would be easier to focus on and work with the GUI if different kinds of menus and clickable links would be at the same place (and stop moving around on screen) even when changing between different "views". For example, when looking at t...
    9 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

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