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allow metromirror between hyperswap clusternodes

Provide possibility to create metro mirror relationships between 2 storwize hyperswap cluster nodes.currently this can be only done through command line.
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

EasyTier Pool new extent allocation on specific Tier

Build an option for SVC Easter pools so that we can set the allocation of new extents to a specific tier level.
almost 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Which userid does restore a file ?

For tracing, for auditing reasons we want to know the TSM administrator name of the administrator which restores an object (file, directory).TSM web client is used for the restore.Looking in server actlog there are two messages ANR0503I (with the ...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

TSM should support the shared tapedrive feature of TS3500

TSM 7.1 on AIX 7.1 with TS3500 tape library. ANR8300E I/O error on Ts3500 tape library OP=(00006c03). I have 4 E07 tape drives in this physical library I have 2 logical libraries with the robotics and one tape drive assigned to each library, and t...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

nfsv4 kerberized solution

We would like a solution to get the better performance and security of NFSv4 in a kerberized environment. This solution is to be supported in IBM Spectrum Scale protocol nodes.
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

TDMF OPTION to Delay/Retry Quiesce/Swap until Concurrent Copy Completes

This is a documented restriction in the TDMF for z/OS Installation and Reference manual chapter 5 section 'Extended functions'. however, it sounds as if you would like an ability to elongate the TDMF session until the concurrent copy sessions have...
almost 10 years ago in TDMF z/OS 4 Not under consideration

TSM and Guard Point Backup Process

System: IBM TSM BA ClientActor: TSM AdministratorNeed: Update TSM BA Client TSM BA Client is used to backup and restore critical business data on thousands of servers nightly. Update the TSM BA Client for all Unix Platforms to backup and restore G...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Allow no lock control option on specific protocol exports

Some workloads do not need ensuring lock and an offering if parallel access will be needed or not (specially for CIFS). So for some workloads CTDB would not necessarily be used on all exports
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Dynamic migation of the TSM DB and Log volumes from one OS volume to another.

We need to migrate the TSM DB and log volume from one Os volume to another dynamically. WE have performed this activity in the previous version of TSM and it worked perfect. Seems like that capability is missing in the newer versions.. For Ex: I u...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Message ANR0422W should be changed when an admin fails the connection.

Message ANR0422W should be changed when an admin fails the connection. This makes some reporting / alerting tools to believe that a backup may be configured incorrectly when it's clearly not the case.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

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