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LISTING/PREVIEW of ALL tapes required for a RETRIEVE or a RESTORE

Retrieve and Restore function should have preview option to list the volumes which will be required for the Restore or Retrieve;
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Control - Add a capacity planning modeling function

IBM Spectrum Control uses capacity information to provide an estimated zero capacity date. I would request that this same information be utilized to allow customers to perform capacity planning modeling. Current workaround: Perform this manually u...
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 2 Not under consideration

Access of TS7700 Data in Cloud by Open Systems

FedEx has requested the ability to access via open/distributed systems, data they will send from their on-prem TS7700s to the cloud
about 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Ethernet Port Support

Need Ethernet support added to "Ports" so we get the same visibility as Fibre Channel Ports do. Hard to run IP Replication or ISCSI and have no visibility.P.S. I would of put a PMR # but your System is not set up to handle the "new" way of things....
about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 4 Planned for future release

Server command to change/migrate node config from one TSM instance/server to another

When running a TSM environment with multiple servers and TSM instances on each server - and not always having direct access on all clients - it will be useful if a TSM administrator could issue a server command to tell a client to change its confi...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale Call Home for AIX

Provide the Call Home feature for AIX like the Linux feature
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement Grid control function to fence a cluster automatically when the grid network were unstable.

When the grid network was unstable Hydra Domain Manager on each cluster could be also unstable and cause to wait for logical volume mounting. If the network disconnected completely, the status of the cluster(s) could be changed into "not operation...
about 2 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 9 Not under consideration

Hierarchical fileset quotas option

Add an option to mmcrfileset and/or mmchfileset where you can specify whether or not you want the fileset quota usage of all child filesets to "roll up" and be applied to quotas of any/all of their parent filesets. This probably makes the most sen...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Enclosure-loss protection on Storwize V7000

Please implement contra-rotating SAS cabling for connections from Controller enclosure to drive enclosures. This gives additional failure protection and avoids enclosure interdependencies caused by "daisy-chain" connections. DS4000 / DS5000 custom...
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Not under consideration

Tickets created with SI should have same info added to the ticket when created by phone home

When an SVC "phones home", the ticket generated includes the following information - Client would like this same information automatically generated when they create a ticket with SI. Today, only the serial number is passed. Client does leverages ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

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