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Spectrum Scale AFM support for GCP

AFM file/object copy to GCP. Better: use AFM to TIER to GCP
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

DS8K Should Be Intelligent Enough to Compare Source and Target Data for Remote Copies

When a relationship between a source and target system is accidentally lost, the DS8K must re-copy all the data. Instead the DS8K should be able to compare the source and target data so that only changed data or missing structures are copied. This...
about 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Add read MB/s metric for Vc and Vcc

The original IDEA/RFE was this one "Add support for stage/destage metrics in MB/s" https://ibm-sys-storage.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/SSI-I-51 Destage metrics were added (Fast-Write Writes Vc and Vcc), but stage/read MB/s metrics were not added for Vc an...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Require HTTPS for Spectrum Protect Web Client

Currently only HTTP works when using the Backup-Archive Web Client. US Bancorp requires this communication to be transmitted over HTTPS due to Federal audit requirements. We know that the data is not sent in clear text, but the auditors don't, so ...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

HADR priming with online database backup

The current process to configure Tivoli Storage Manager for HADR is documented here: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/Tivoli%20Storage%20Manager/page/Electronic%20vaulting%20using%20deduplicated%20remote%20cop...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Add compressed/ill-compressed options to mmfind

For a while we have maintained our own modified versions of mmfind and tr_findToPol.pl in /usr/lpp/mmfs/samples/ilm so we can identify the compressed and illcompressed files. It would be nice if this feature could be considered for inclusion in fu...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

SI Data Collector Status Provides Misleading Information

The SI Data Collector Configuration page provides various pieces of status information, including the number of candidates and monitored nodes. It also as a column that reads "unreachable." I opened a support case (TS007958840) to find out why the...
about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Planned for future release

Add ability to suppress ANS1115W ( File skipped due to exclude ) message

SITUATION1. TSM allows the exclusion of files and folders from its backup regime.2. At present, TSM will produce error messages for files/filders skipped due to the configuration.3. The messages are classed as 'warning' even though this is clearly...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

More detailed warning message

We had a data loss on our SPP infra, when administrator removed vSnap server. From operational point of view, issue is clear human error, but we recommend to use more efficient warning message than the one curently used (for example RED instead of...

Being able to backup different nodes on an Always-on to dfferent vSnaps

We should be able to backup different nodes on an Always-on structure to different vSnap servers. If there are 2 or 3 nodes on an Always-on structure we can backup a chosen node to desired vSnap. But it doesn't allow us to choose which node to bac...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration