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Samba "hide unreadable = root_only" to boost performance

In most cases we need Samba's "hide unreadable" only on root directory of an smb export. A switch to enable "hide unreadable" only for the export dir's content and not for the whole subtree should significantly improve performance.
11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 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

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...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

TS7700 I/O Priority

Problem Description:All systems (Test or Production) sharing the same TS7700 cluster or GRID get the same priority/throughput independent of its importance.Request:Implement the possibility to set a priority for each LPAR/Sysplex using the same TS...
almost 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Future consideration

TS7700 MI Backup Setting

Automation for backup setting in TS7700. Create a scheduler mechanism in TS7700 MI or CLI (LIB Command) for automate the backup setting. Industry: Banking, Insurance, Finance and Health..
almost 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Faster fiber channel interfaces for LTO drives

Recent generations of proprietary IBM tape formats (TS1160 and TS1170) support 16 Gbps, we would like to see LTO drives support this as well. 16 Gbps (or faster) Fiber Channel interfaces are necessary to get full performance from modern LTO drives...
11 months ago in Linear Tape-Open 2 Planned for future release

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

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

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

Releasing space in DB

There is a manual method to Releasing space in DB2 9.7 table spaces. (Online Reorg)Run analyze_DB2_formulas.pl data.And run db2 alter tablespace for tables that can free desirable space (from output of above perl script).This step could be embedde...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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