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Provide general ability for the ordinary user to use SpMg Tape Optimized Recall

The Tape Optimized Recall (TOR) feature finally being provided in the TSM client 6.3 should immediately be "expanded" to allow the ordinary user to take advantage of this long sought feature. The (initial) root limitation on TOR is severely limiti...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 4 Not under consideration

Add support to api calls for not following symlinks

It would be useful if the GPFS api commands that accept a filesystem path as an argument could support an optional flag such that if the final component of the path is a symbolic link the link is not followed. The goal is to be able to perform an ...
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

Azure support included as a Container Pool for Spectrum

We would like to have the ability to connect to Microsoft Azure for storage of our backups, or potentially to run our entire TSM environment in. Current disks available in Azure are too small to be used for storage pools, so would require access t...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Display Smart Drive Rebuild Progress to Customer

IRS (U.S. Federal government) wishes to have the status of a Smart Drive Rebuild reflected in the log so that they can tell when the DS8000 starts it and when it finishes. It must be distinguished from a regular drive rebuild (RAID 5, 6, or 10).
over 8 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Allow the use of cloud container pool as replication source

At present, cloud container pools can be used as a replication target but not replication source. This is an issue as it means if the replication source server is destroyed or becomes unavailable, it is not possible to replicate the data back to a...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Leverage Cloud container pool directory as restore cache

SP 7.1.6 introduced the concept of using local storage as a fast ingest cache in a cloud container pool. I propose that the same or similar cache is used to mask the low per-stream object performance.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Information for SpMg file systems (dsmdf) should be displayable on all nodes in an HSM cluster; not just on the mgmt node

Information for SpMg file systems (through the provided standard tool dsmdf) should be displayable on all nodes in an HSM cluster; not just on the mgmt node. More than just being a convenient feature to see the file system state, inode information...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 2 Not under consideration

TSM "server to server" replication

NOTE: Collin Dawson is aware of this discussion.According to Collin this is a great Idea. Good for the EAP also.TSM "server to server" replication should prefereably be done in Policy domain rather than on Node Level. (node level now in plans)Is d...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Enable ESS and Scale GUI option to enter and display decimal

Add the ability, in the ESS and Spectrum Scale GUIs, to show storage data in decimal (base 10) rather than binary (base 2). For example, in form fields and pull-downs, and in displays of capacities (total, used, free, etc.), allow "4 TB" to mean 4...
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

SVC Auto balance

We have 4 IO/Groups under one stretched cluster ; we experienced some performance issues and the support team advised to migrate LUNs between the nodes; this is unfeasible as administrator can never balance the nodes manually , SVC should be aware...
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

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