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Eliminate manual recompiles of gpfs.gplbin due to kernel changes

It should not be necessary for customers to manually recompile gpfs.gplbin every time the kernel is updated. Two possible approaches seem to be: * kmod, which would remove the need to recompile the module as long as the kABI remains stable. kABI-t...
about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Planned for future release

Add support for client encryption on deduplicated data

Support of client specified encryption (password) is needed for client side deduplication. This feature is desired to cover all types of clients from IBM - Backup-Archive, TSM4VE, TDP for SQL, TDP for mail and so on.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

CDM - request to not wait for the Flashcopy to complete copying before ending the job in the storage controller

- During restore the FC "volume snap" is currently mounted successfully via CDM- but no access is possible for an application e.g. VMware. - CDM waits for R/W operations until the complete FC is restored. Thus no immediate restore + use with CDM i...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Allow SLA associations to survive the move of associated guests from one hypervisor to another

possibility to migrate VM's between different vCenter systems. In this case today SPP track this as a new VM, but it is not a new VM it's the same as before.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

gpfs client support rocky linux

we expect gpfs client support more operation systems to meet the needs of mostusers， for example rocky linux
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

DSCLI updated to work with Azul JAVA

Oracle are looking to charge customers for JAVA utilities. https://redresscompliance.com/decoding-oracle-java-licensing-java-licensing-changes-2023/#:~:text=entire%20employee%20population.-,Did%20Oracle%20change%20the%20Java%20license%3F,old%20PRO...
about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

Support of custom tolerations for Fusion base, backup services and non-core services

Reduce VPC requirements on worker nodes, reducing cost of CPK and OCP licenses allowing base & backup services to run on infra-nodes
almost 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

CSM - Automatically Synchronise Standby Server Sessions After IPL.

We have two DS8000 Controllers in a full MM - Hyperswap Configuration. We have two CSM Sessions running on two different LPARS in our SYSPLEX. ( LPAR1 (Primary ) and LPAR2 (Standby) ) We observe that after IPL of the LPAR2 ( Configured as the Stan...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect for VE restore only one disk, default space issue

Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Restore Issue. The product design only permits these options when you want to restore only one individual unit like c: 1. If the target guest does not exist yet, space will be assigned on the datastore for...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Add ability to specify cluster as target for TSM4VE restores

Make it possible to specify ESXi cluster and storage cluster names when restoring VM in TSM4VE
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

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