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Change status of a need_replace tape

The eeadm tape replace command is a command that take long time because when this command is in the reclaim phase, is only allowed to use two tape drive although a regular "eeadm tape reclaim" command is allowed to use more tape drive. Sometime, a...
5 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Future consideration

Support for GFS2 file systems

Support for GFS2 file systems. Customer tested the backup and restore of GFS2 FileSystems and the attributes are not restored. Then, the current solution is not valid
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

i5/OS (AS/400) Client API Service extension

Official announcement has been made in Developerworks Wiki that TSM 6.2 API for i5/OS will go out if support the 30th of April 2015.(see https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/IBM%20Backup,%20Recovery%20and%20Media%...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

SPP: be able to rename SLA

SPP: Please allow for renaming SLA.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

1500 character limit for SQL statements in dsmadmc

Currently there is a limit that commands im dsmadmc can't be longer than 1500 characters else error ANS8028E will be raised.For most commands this limit is fine but for Spectrum Protect server scripts with complex SQL statements this is a real str...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 50 Future consideration

Dual LCC option for single frame libraries

In a single frame configuration there is no redundancy for the library control card. This is a single point of failure and can cause lengthy outages. Dual LCC option would eliminate this.
over 4 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

Increase the DS8000 TCT throughput per dataset

Customer is using DS8K TCT with HSM in mainframe to have a 3rd copy of data in the IBM Cloud (COS).They are using 3 DS8K boxes and the total throughput they can achieve is not enough to send the data generated in the last 24h every day.The limitat...
over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Scale GUI Dashboard Nodes by Latency

Add the ability to "Cherry Pick" and display in the Scale GUI the top nodes by latency. This could be on the statistics widget or a new widget. Add the granularity of client nodes, NSD nodes, nodes by nodeclass XYZ, or custom picked nodes. Additio...
11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Scale GUI Statistics Save, Generate report, and Forward Selections

Provide the ability in the Scale GUI Statistics monitoring page to save custom settings for easy re-use and ability to forward these selections to the Dashboard page for use in a monitoring widget. There are pre-set statistics monitoring selection...
11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

We need "UNIX/LINUX clear/Windows cls" command to clear the screen. The "cls" command should be an alias of the "clear" command.

Need to clear the screen to focus on what is shown. It would improve debugging and when sharing a screen via WebEx.
11 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

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