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Missing time stamp

It seems obvious to us that it would be useful to know when the scanning of a Qtree has ended. The only existing keys to date are NameStatusMessageScan_recordsIndexed_recordsPhaseTotal_phases The endpoint we are looking at is sd connmgr/v1/scan/QT...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

Allowing to mapping CES address to fixed interface

The current design is alis CES ip to one of interface or the interface has the fixed ip in the same subnet. This is not flexibile and will wast of fixed ip. Customer hope to support static CES IP mapping that can assign CES IP to dedicated etherne...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Functionality already exists

Decrease memory requirement in CES.

The Scale FAQ list CES node need 128GB memory. It's huge to most of SMB scenarios. Most of Customer often have 50/100/200 SMB/NFS connections per CES ndoe pair. Customer hope to support 16G/32G/64G/128G memory models in CES node. If it's no, custo...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Deligate tasks (migration) to data mover servers

When IBM TSM is used for archiving petabytes of data for long term, massive data migration is expected specially when changing media technology. Today, the migration process can only happen on the server, and thus creates a huge load on the server...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

VM move from one VC to another schould be recognized by SPP

In large and grown VMware environments it can happen that VMs have to be moved from one virtual center to the next in the same cluster. With Virtual Centers that have existed for many years, VMware Support may recommend installing a new VC and mov...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

Warning message in actlog when active log exceeds threshold

When active log exceeds threshold of 75% warning message ADM10501W (Health indicator "Log Utilization" ("db.log_util") breached the "upper" warning threshold of "75 %" with value "75 %" on "database" "xxxx.TSMDB1") is issued to db2diag log but the...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Create BVIR copy queue report

We have a VTS Grid leveraged across many z/OS mainframe clients and some of those clients have an SLA on tape replication to our DR site. We need to prove to these clients that at all times their tapes are being copied to the DR site in under 2 ho...
over 6 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Planned for future release

Red Hat Pacemaker Cluster Services support with IBM Spectrum Protect

IBM Services have many enterprise customers with regulatory requirements that requires high availability (HA) on all IBM Spectrum Protect servers that handle critical data both at on-premise data center as remote data centers. In cases where HA is...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Have the ability to "lock" a session from admin role to avoid any action on that session

In some d/r configuration where you can setup a MM-GMp session normally working but also a GM reverse session from H3 to H1 to protect the data when you switch to H3 site to run production, it could be advisable to have the ability for the admin r...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Lift the limit that one filespace can only have one node replication session

I got more than 50 filespaces, some of these filespaces are filled with PB-level file data. To replicate one of the PB-level filespaces on LTO-8 tapes, will take more than one month. 1PB=1024*1024*1024 MB LTO-8 Drive read/write speed: 360MB/s 1024...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration