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Faster fiber channel interfaces for LTO drives

Recent generations of proprietary IBM tape formats (TS1160 and TS1170) support 16 Gbps, we would like to see LTO drives support this as well. 16 Gbps (or faster) Fiber Channel interfaces are necessary to get full performance from modern LTO drives...
about 1 year ago in Linear Tape-Open 2 Planned for future release

TS7700 Set LVOL to non used state for removing a TMC range of tapes

The customer wants a way to set a volser or a range of volsers to a TMC Delete state so that the volume will not being mounted as a scratch in preparation to remove the volser or range.
over 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 4 Planned for future release

SP server to support IBM S3 cloud side retention policies, WORM features, object locking

When using Cloud Storage Pool in a Spectrum Protect Server , it should support all the features that can be set at the S3 level ( especially when the S3 cloud is IBM !! ) like Cloud side retention policies, WORM features, object locking.For retent...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Planned for future release

Spectrum Protect Plus (SPP) needs to be installable in Azure

Spectrum Protect Plus (SPP) server and vSnap needs to be installable in Azure.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Enable support for signing kernel modules for the GPFS portability layer

We need a way to have GPFS client code to support signing the GPFS portability layer kernel modules so it is possible to run with secureboot enabled. In the FAQ it is listed to be disabled or handled manualy. We would request that the Spectrum Sca...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

Spectrum Copy Data Management missing RHEL 8 support

Currently Spectrum Copy Data Management 2.2.13 does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

Backup & Restore of NSX network interfaces/Tags using Spectrum Protect Plus and Spectrum Protect for VE

Spectrum Protect Plus and Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments need to include the option ofbackup/restore of VMware NSX virtual networking devices and its Security Tags into the VMare VMs. NSX is becoming a widely used virtual network infras...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Identify individual VM backup sessions during a SLA backup

Once a SLA is running, it would be nice to see in a list which VM's completed the backup successfully, which failed, which are running and which will run, to help monitor and take appropriate actions if needed.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Decommission VM confirmation with filespace name

When decommission is run for example:DECOMMISSION VM VMNAME 999 NAMETYPE=FSID No confirmation of what filespace/vmname is shown. The confirmation message:ANR3392W DECOMMISSION VM: This command will decommission the specified virtual machine. The a...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

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

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