IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Allow ZDMF to move allocated data sets.

    Per the ZDMF manual and other IBM publications it is stated that data can be moved/migrated while allocated to applications. I have never been able to do this. If a data set is allocated It will not move until the allocating application is brought...
    9 months ago in zDMF 1 Submitted

    From the GUI of "DiamondBack", monitoring the current drive's transmission speed

    Firmware : 2.9.0.4-B00.00 Hello.The customer of the equipment wants to monitor the transmission speed in real time with the GUI.I looked around the GUI to satisfy the customer, but it doesn't seem to have the functionality they want. The GUI doesn...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Diamondback Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Operation Center Client Deployment Support for Ubuntu/Debian

    Operation Center does not support Linux86 Ubuntu platform for client deployments.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    Expand "SET FAILOVERHLADDRESS" to node granularity

    On Server Version 7.1 a function "SET FAILOVERHLADDRESS " was introduced to allow the failover IP to be different then the IP used for replication, this is a step in the right direction. However on TSM Servers with multiple IP's with clients in di...
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Currency Support for spectrum protect for Snapshot

    We missing the Support of Spectrum Protect for Snapshot on rhel7.6 x86_64 Systems. Today the prereq checker complain that only 7.5 are supported. We use the snapshot function for db2 here.
    almost 7 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Planned for future release

    Need support of Power 9 Compression HW chip on AIX Client for TSM Server and Client

    Hellowe have implemented a new Backup LAN with CISCO ACI Network 40 GBit and made backup over this seperate lan to tsm serverWe need to do a compression on the TSM Client side because the TSM Servers has currently not the capabilities to store unc...
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    EasyTier in multi tier pools - selsction of tiers participating in a single volume

    i would like to propose the ability to subselsct the tier level a specific volume is participating in. when having 3 storage tier within one pool, clients would like to priorize some volume e.g. have some volume use flash and enterprise, but other...
    over 10 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

    mmbackup enhancements

    mmbackup has no support of application that generate the Content of the same file with a temporary file, and if finish renamed these temp file to original name. SAS-Institute with the *.sas7bdat.lck as temp and *.sas7bdat as original filename are ...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    CSM ability for more than two CSM servers in configuration sharing a common database and staying in synch. Active/Active

    3. The ability two have more than two Servers actively sharing the same CSM database. As an Active/Active instead of an Active/Standby configuration. The ability to have more than two servers join the same CSM configuration and stay in Synch with ...
    almost 7 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Fusion Data Catalog - support for show back / charge back cost analysis

    Fusion Data Catalog already provides the ability to show how much capacity is consumed / used by a user or a group within a storage system. being able to add the ability to define the cost per storage tier for storage systems that are being monito...
    9 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

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