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    Increase the DS8000 TCT throughput per dataset

    Customer is using DS8K TCT with HSM in mainframe to have a 3rd copy of data in the IBM Cloud (COS).They are using 3 DS8K boxes and the total throughput they can achieve is not enough to send the data generated in the last 24h every day.The limitat...
    almost 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

    Expand SP S3 object client interface to allow targeting tape for users outside of SPP

    Multiple customers have requested that we allow Spectrum Protect to receive data via S3 and store that data on tape. They need a deep/cold archiving solution with air-gap and optional immutability and encryption at-rest support.
    about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    HA GUI synchronization for notification events

    Changes to notification events are currently not synchronized to secondary GUI node in an HA GUI configuration. This lead to the problem, that I have to perform the "Mark as read" function for several GUI events at each GUI node separately, to get...
    7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Releasing space in DB

    There is a manual method to Releasing space in DB2 9.7 table spaces. (Online Reorg)Run analyze_DB2_formulas.pl data.And run db2 alter tablespace for tables that can free desirable space (from output of above perl script).This step could be embedde...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Omnipath network support by Elastic Storage Server 3500/6000 (now called IBM Storage Scale System 3500)

    IDRIS is an Education and Research customer hosting on of the largest compute center in France for several research entities (CNRS, GENCI, ... : http://www.idris.fr/). They currently use a very large Spectrum Scale appliance configuration with Len...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

    File Indexing numbers

    Need to add option to get current utilization of file indexing numbers as we have limit in SPP
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Backup data from ESX host without vcenter

    Spectrum Protect Plus requires vcenter in virtual machine backups.But not every customer has vCenter, their virtual environment only runs on the ESX host.In addition, many backup products can take backups from the ESX host without the need for vce...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    Manual Tag Backups

    If we setup TSM for VE we are normally backing up our VMs using VMware Tags, but the issue with VMware tags is that we need to setup temporary schedules to be able to test it or rerun a failing job.We want to be able to run the VMware Tag Backup u...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Submitted

    OSSM data offload to tape via stgrule

    We need air-gaped copy of all our data stored in directory pool containers. Almost half of the data is OSSM, however storagerule actiontype=copy does not offload OSSM data to cpoy pool.
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    LI REQ Commands to display Network Port Information

    The current LI REQ,xxxxx,STATUS,RDP,FxPyz is a great command and useful for FICON port connectivity. Would this command be able to expand for all Network connections as well? For example on a DS8000 DCLI command I can view all IOPORTS, NETWORKPORT...
    almost 5 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Planned for future release

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