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Scale ECE - optimize the efficiency of swapd processing, and ensure consistency in file access

Current Issue: A directory A is created on GPFS Client 1. Then on Client 2, directory A is accessed and a subdirectory B is created inside it. If directory A is subsequently deleted and recreated on GPFS Client 1, attempting to create subdirectory...
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Prevent Web B/A client file level restore port conflict with WAS ports

Customer identified during the Spectrum Protect web client implementation that its ports (9081) conflicts directly with WAS (Websphere Application Server) ports that's is being in use by their banking online production applications. Thus this beha...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Utilize NetApp Snapshots for Spectrum Protect Plus backups

Please investigate allowing Spectrum Protect Plus to perform an array-based Snapshot on NetApp systems for VMware vSphere backups. The software could trigger vSphere snapshots on the VMs in a datastore to remove the write lock from the VMDK and ca...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

more volumes on DS8000

Currently, only 65280 volumes are possible in DS8000, due to the LSS/LCU concept. When in a FlashCopy relation, this is cut in half practically.Increase this somehow so that well more (e.g. over 200,000) volumes are possible.
about 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under 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

Site locations to inherit the location of the devices

Have sessions inherit the site locations that are configured for the devices that are involved in the session. Currently the site locations are custom fields that could be set to any text. You can select any location even ones that don't match the...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

SPP Updated Reporting

Currently the reporting in Spectrum Protect Plus needs a bit of work. Couple of requests i would like to make.1. The ability to have all sizes in the same format. IE everything in bytes, MB,GB,TB etc.The reason for this is then the ability to sort...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

Disable alerts when SLA has no VM

We would like an option to disable alerts when SLA has no VM
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Allow user to adjust the number of "keep alive" requests that can be missed before a storage device sends 2020 error event

IBM needs to add a feature that would allow people who manage IBM storage devices to adjust the number of "keep alive" requests that can be missed before a storage device sends 2020 error event emails about Remote Copy links being down --- 99% of ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Space and container usage on SP server

Ever since directory container pools was introduced, the "undocumented / unsupported" command: show sdpool has been the best/only way of managing free, used and unavailable space in the dedup/non-dedup containers. In many cases a manual "move cont...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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