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Support Windows 2019 on the SP B/A client

More and more customers are asking about when we will support Windows Server 2019 to be able to install the B/A client.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Planned for future release

Support ILM pool migrations in stretched cluster without killing WAN

Currently when migrating files between replicated storage pools in a stretched cluster, intense load is experienced on the WAN. This is because the migration is essentially a copy of the files (hopefully?? respecting readReplicaPolicy) and the wri...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Check pool usage in units of "fileset"

My client company is a customer who uses "fileset" in a wide variety.The customer is using "ess3200" and "ess5000" divided into "system pool" and "data1 pool".The customer has transferred the data from "system pool" in "fileset" to "data1 pool".Ho...
11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

FS7200, use interfaces more dynamically

FS7200 network configuration is not suitable for our network design and security aspects.
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

Display freeze time for remote copy remote copy relationships in Storage Insights

Customer has requested to be able to view Freeze Time for remote copy relationships within the Storage Insights GUI.Other remote copy information is viewed through navigating to: Resources - Block Storage Systems - Click the storage device - Click...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Not under consideration

Keep supporting TSM API (backup to TSM via BRMS on IBM i)

Please do not discontinue this support.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Pagepool enhancements

Today, the pagepool value in GPFS is set once typically at install. However if the workloads change, the setting needs to be done by customer intervention. One example, the pagepool needs to be readjusted when there is not enough memory left for t...
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

new Spectrum Protect Client API to provide "QUERY OCCUPANCY" details + possibly "Q STGPOOL capacity details

Hi,The SPFS solution is a virtual filesystem that makes it possible to mount Spectrum Protect server storage directly on the server, so that it is possible to protect almost anydata with Spectrum Protect using normal file operations. SPFS uses Spe...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Simplify Ubuntu/Debian install instructions by using apt instead of dpkg

Since apt/apt-get nowadays (well, since apt 1.1 released in 2015) support installing from local file, https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEQVQ_8.1.11/client/t_inst_ubuntu_x86_64client.html should probably be changed from multiple dpkg -i...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

GPFS Client/Server Capable of AIX Live Update Function

Enhance GPFS code base to allow for a AIX 7.2 GPFS Client/Server to be capable of the AIX Live Update Function.
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration