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Several users connected to the IBM TS4300 tape library at the same time

Currently, only one person (on Operator Panel or Management GUI) can be logged in to the IBM TS4300 tape library at the same time. The customer would like several person to be able to connect to the library at the same time.
over 3 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Not under consideration

Minimum Volume creation size flag

The ability to set a flag on the SVC that prevents creation of vdisks smaller than the specified size.
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

SNMP Mib walk for ESS

Provide snmp mib walk via polling without having to build snmpd.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Not under consideration

V7000 needs more flexible cache allocation options

The caching algorithm does not have enough flexibility in assigning cache to storage pools. I would like to see selectable options: 1) Current (equal percent across storage pools) 2) Percentage based on amount of storage in the storage pool vs ove...
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

TS7700 reports compared to ORACLE STK reports.

There are some kinds of reports from ORACLE STK solution, that customer frequently use to monitor VSM usage and management. They asked us to evaluate having similar reports to:1. Identify all logical tapes in use, and detail where we have replicat...
about 10 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 4 Not under consideration

Full synthetic backups

To be able to create full synthetic backups without the need of performing full backups. Other competitors do it so why not TSM
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Not under consideration

SMB Error Message handling changes

When a user tries to delete a folder via SMB (Windows explorer) served out from a protocol node while another user has an open file in the folder, the action completes without an error being posted that another user has a file open within the fold...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

FlashSystem - Firmware upgrade automation by SVC

Hi,Our customer is running SVC with above 30 FlashSystem today. Each time he needs to upgrade the FlashSystems firmware he needs to do it for each FlashSystem separately which can be quite complicated to follow and specially to do it in given time...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

HOST Free SAN based data transfer

At present, TSM for SAN allows for a TSM Server free data transfer by mapping Tape drives to the client server. The data is then read in from the Disk subsystem via the host HBAs, and then read out to the Tape drives via the host HBAs dedicated to...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 2 Not under consideration

SVC integrated Host Free backup

Integrate the TSM backup agent with SVC/DS*/V7K storage technologies to allow for block based backpup similar to TSM for VE * CBT. This would likely be done by leveragingcurrent Flashcopy technologies which already maintain bitmaps of change block...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

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