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Minimum Volume creation size flag

The ability to set a flag on the SVC that prevents creation of vdisks smaller than the specified size.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

SVC should not Assert if the other node within the I/O group is down (SYS4866)

IBM GTS Services Delivery requests STG implement a fix so that if a node within an I/O grou is down, or is in the process of asserting, the second node within that I/O group will not assert (reboot). Note:1) Before Reboot, check state of other nod...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Inheritable CLOPT

Allow the ability to nest client option sets such that they can inherit from each other.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 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

Bootable restore CD with TSM 7.1 client GUI

We would like to have a bootable disk with a TSM 7.1 GUI for performing bare metal Windows OS restores on a server.We have created a Windows PE disk with the command line client version, which works.However, performing a restore from the command l...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

SNMP 64 bit counters + CIM support

Proper 64 bit counters. Obtaining correct SNMP values (E.G. for pool sizes) is not as simple as it should be.
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

AFM queue control

Complete control over the order of each prefetch (analogy: priority WAN transfer queue for GPFS)
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

SNMP Trap when NTP synchronisation failed

Customer requires that a SNMP trap is issued when the resynchronization with the NTP server can't be completed whatever the reason.Synchronisation of all DS888x is paramount for debugging purposes.
almost 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Add missing return codes to dsmrc.h for Tivoli Storage Manager to assist customers in problem determination

Return codes such as 362 and 363 are not documented for example so PMRs must be opened for proper problem determination. More cost efficient for customers if documented at: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSGSG7_7.1.8/api/r_ret_code...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Not under consideration

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