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Display freeze time for remote copy remote copy relationships in Storage Insights

Customer has requested to be able to view Freeze Time for remote copy relationships within the Storage Insights GUI.Other remote copy information is viewed through navigating to: Resources - Block Storage Systems - Click the storage device - Click...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Not under consideration

Less tape-commits with server-processes like Backup Stg, Migration and Reclamation to improve throuput

TSM does a tape-commit (and thus a time-consuming backhitch on the tape drive) every time the backup-date, the nodename, the filespace or even the managementclass within a single filespaces of a single node changes. This is regardless of / precede...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Metadata only Replication for Spectrum Protect

Entering this request on behalf of Kroger Company Provide the ability on the Spectrum Protect Server to Replicate Meta Data only to an alternate Spectrum Protect Server located at a secondary site used as a Disaster Recovery site.
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Pagepool enhancements

Today, the pagepool value in GPFS is set once typically at install. However if the workloads change, the setting needs to be done by customer intervention. One example, the pagepool needs to be readjusted when there is not enough memory left for t...
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

new Spectrum Protect Client API to provide "QUERY OCCUPANCY" details + possibly "Q STGPOOL capacity details

Hi,The SPFS solution is a virtual filesystem that makes it possible to mount Spectrum Protect server storage directly on the server, so that it is possible to protect almost anydata with Spectrum Protect using normal file operations. SPFS uses Spe...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

GPFS Client/Server Capable of AIX Live Update Function

Enhance GPFS code base to allow for a AIX 7.2 GPFS Client/Server to be capable of the AIX Live Update Function.
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Keep supporting TSM API (backup to TSM via BRMS on IBM i)

Please do not discontinue this support.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Increase vmmaxvirtualdisks limit

Increase the maximum supported disk size (Vmmaxvirtualdisks option) to current available limit. In version 8.1.10 the maximum is 8TB but the maximum vmdk size in cSphere 6.7 is 64TB.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Simplified descOnly support on virtual quorum node

We should support using VM internal partition for descOnly NSD. Should not require the complexity of raw device mapping for this simple functionality, that also doesn't have any risk of data loss. I asked on the internal General Parallel File Syst...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 7 Not under consideration

Scale GUI Statistics Save, Generate report, and Forward Selections

Provide the ability in the Scale GUI Statistics monitoring page to save custom settings for easy re-use and ability to forward these selections to the Dashboard page for use in a monitoring widget. There are pre-set statistics monitoring selection...
11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

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