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IBM to support Mellanox version 5.3x in clients running with ESS at 4.9 or later i.e mixed OFED versions can be greater than

Tram asked me to open RFE for Ford Hi Ron, Doug has asked if you can open a RPQ for IBM to support Mellanox version 5.3x in clients running with ESS at 4.9 or later i.e mixed OFED versions can be greater than -2Ford has opened a Mellanox ticket on...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

Support for more than 16 tape drives

Michael at Navy Federal Credit Union would like to be able to add more than 16 tape drives to TS7700 in future.
about 2 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

GPFS supports parameters to control the memory of pmcollector

Status: Excessive memory occupy
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

New combination in SSIC for storage 2145-DH8

We require new Host and storage combination to be tested as the same combination is not reflecting in SSIC.
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Do whole-file allocation for FILE scratch volumes too

According to the TSM Performance documentation at:http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v6r4/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.itsm.perf.doc%2Fr_ptg_sysfragfile.htmlthe TSM server utilizes OS functions to allocate space for volumes when preallocating...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

Allow custom configuration of Spectrum Scale scanner

Allow the specification of Spectrum Scale "mmapplypolicy" command details to tailor the scanning granularity for Spectrum Discover. E.g. do not scan snapshots by e.g. not scanning the .mmsnapshot directory.
over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Not under consideration

DS8000 needs to allow customer access to detailed debugging logs for cloud related activities.

Currently network activity and error states between the DS8000 and cloud porividers, and also between DS8000 and z/OS, is not available to view. The only log available is the audit log which does not provide detail on how the DS8000 preceives or h...
about 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Change of srvmon directory to different path instead of instance path

Our instance home directory which is 20 GB in size is getting full as the hidden collection folder in srvmon directory is using up to 15 GB of the space in instance directory before it can get purged.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Automatic ingest for new tapes

I want to load new tapes into I/O slots and have them automatically moved into available slots based on function (data tape or cleaning tape). Right now, at least one magazine must be fully removed to add new tapes.
about 2 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 3 Future consideration

qos support dio

qos support dio
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

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