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    Support end user activation for HyperSwap relationship suspension and activation to allow batch workload best performance

    Spectrum Virtualize HyperSwap current implementation does not allow selectively pausing/activating active-active replication for a volume or a consistency group protected by the HyperSwap mechanism. This forbids clients to host latency sensitive w...
    almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

    Add machine serial number to TS7700 Grid/Cluster MI summary

    TS7700 Grid/Cluster MI summary page has many useful information, including the VE hardware serial number, but it is missing the serial numbers of other components of the TS7700 cluster. Adding the serial numbers of the other components, which are ...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Planned for future release

    A seamless support for custom namespace

    Currently, even though Fusion supports custom namespace, the procedure requires manual steps. For example, FusionServiceDefinition has to be patched to reflect the correct custom namespace.
    12 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Product requirements related to performance monitoring

    1.Distinguish between creating and opening indicators at the VFS level 2.When multiple clusters mount and access storage, distinguish the read and write latency indicators of different clusters. 3.When multiple clusters mount and access storage, d...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    User set replication bandwidth allocation per IO group

    Today SVC allocate a equal share of the partnership bandwidth to all IOGRP in a cluster.This RFE is to allow a user to set a different share (percent) of the overall bandwidth to different IOGRP
    over 9 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Update Management Class for backups/archives in TSM

    in our environment TSM is used for data availability (systems and applications backups), and for data retention (archives of historical data).We have the case of files archived all with the same criteria -so the same Management Class- but now we r...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Limit SP client install to supported OS

    According to SP client release notes page:https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21052226The client is OS requirement is AIX 7.1 or 7.2, however the installation proceeds without any error on AIX 6.1 / VIO 2.2.xStarting the scheduler ju...
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    Replication hung sessions are not getting cancelled on source and target TSM automatically after network disruptions

    Replication sessions are getting hung due to network disruption and those sessions are not getting cancelled when the network issue is resolved. It took almost 4 hours for those sessions to get cancelled by TSM server which delayed DR replication ...
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Is a defect

    Spectrum Scale AFM support for GCP

    AFM file/object copy to GCP. Better: use AFM to TIER to GCP
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Add REstApi to query all volumes on a DS8K

    You can only have a list of volumes if you gives the pool_id or LSS_id. Is-it possible to have a Rest Api to have a list of all volumes on a DS8K without to do looping query on LSS or pool_id ?
    almost 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

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