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Build 3390 with a track size 64K or larger.

Currently 3390 has a track size around 54Kb. It would be great to have a track 64Kb to write larger records in VSAM. We have a need in our Medical Record System stores several procedure codes and we are always running out of space in the record. I...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

GPFS Windows support for zimon interfaces

Please provide capability for performance monitoring of GPFS Windows filesystems. Currently, GPFS Windows doesn't support zimon interfaces
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

DRP support for compressed volumes with Enhanced Stretch Cluster

Currently due to latency considerations on an Enhanced Stretch Cluster (SVC) we are unable to leverage DRP and use compressed and/or deduplicated volumes. 8-node SV1 enhanced stretch cluster, FC connected with X6-8 Brocade core switches and data c...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Uptime command

a "uptime" command that shows system uptime - perhaps lssystemuptime, if possible with several options to show uptime for nodes / drives / ports and other components
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

possibility to influence SVC quorum promotion

We would like to have the possibility to influence on which site the disc quorum will be promoted to active, once all IP quorum are not eligible quorum anymore.
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus Mongo SSl / TLS

Spectrum Protect Plus Mongo client agent does not have support for SSL or TLS security keys. Please add SSL /TLS security function to the Mongo agent.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

S3 Interface to SPP

The IT industry gets faster and faster and new tools get quicker implemented and all of them normally have a Restful API you can use to communicate with the new applications I have fully understanding that IBM can't support all new applications an...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

Decomission of file system for agent base

we are able to perform the completed server using decomission command decom node nodename can we have update feature of this like decom filespace nodename fsid nametype=fsid like this.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Need ability to hold a VADP proxy idle, in reserve, to quickly run ad-hoc jobs (or expedite/prioritise job to head of queue).

We have SLAs that run snapshot backups of VMs, each night. These jobs queue hundreds of VMs to have snapshots taken, and it takes hours for these to complete. Any adhoc snapshot or restore job that we launch during this backup window has to wait h...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add ability to restore drives over original location

Customer would like to have the option to restore a drive directly over the original drive. Currently the only option is to restore the drive and have it mounted along side the original drive.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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