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ARM Support in Spectrum Scale (GPFS)

Our HPC infrastructure is to have a central Spectrum Scale storage solution. all our HPC systems do a native GPFS remote cluster mount.Due to changes in the HPC market we are looking (and also other sides we think) especially at ARM based compute ...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

lin_tape driver for Ubuntu is outdated, any plans to update in the near future?

lin_tape driver is needed for all IBM LTO tape drives and libraries. We have applications running on Ubuntu and need a current version of the driver. With the current version we are stuck to Ubuntu 20.04 and can't move forward.
10 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

Enable messages trapping for Account Creation/Modify/Deletion to be sent via Rsyslog so we can alert on these events

Enable messages trapping for Account Creation/Modify/Deletion to be sent via Rsyslog so we can alert on these events It is my understanding after speaking with IBM that these messages are captured but the system is only designed to send Login / Lo...
10 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Scheduled reports. Save to local path in SPP

Hi.Regarding how to schedule a report to NOT use smtp server due to DMZ and sectret networks. We are handling SPP in DMZ and secret networks where there is no smpt server allowed. How can we save scheduled reports to a local path?For us this is im...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

G0015 message should have corresponding information in TS7700 MI

We recently had a very short 16 second total WAN outage between our two data centers. During this time at least one cluster in every VTS grid send out this message:CBR3750I MESSAGE FROM LIBRARY PVTD016: G0013 Library 00016 has experienced an unexp...
about 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Edit SLA Policy name

Enable the customer to edit the name of an SLA Policy.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Drive preference in a mixed-media library sharing environment

TSM supports multiple media types in a single library definition. It handles these through media type information reported by the physical library,combined with the drive read and write format lists provided by the drives. Unfortunately, in this c...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Add LTO lcd display to drives view

Add a column to drives view that shows the LCD status digit for LTO drives.
almost 5 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Future consideration

DEACTIVATE DATA command enter a list of nodes, or date range or possibly of another platforms (DB2, SQL) NODEGROUP

Will DEACTIVATE commands be able to be executed to enter a series a series of NODES, or for a NODEGROUP? Will the commands be able to be executed for a certain date range, and not only with the current option of TODATE=TODAY-xx days? Is it planned...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Change QUERY ACTLOG output to match terminal window width

I'm not sure if this RFE applies to the server or dsmadmc client, but the request is to change the behavior of the QUERY ACTLOG command output to stretch (and wrap if necessary) to the current width of the terminal window where it is running.Other...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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