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GPFS supports parameters to control the memory of pmcollector

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

VDisk Mirror monitoring events

Customer is requesting the addition of events for situations when SVC cannot update a vdiskcopy of a mirrored vdisk anymore. Furthermore TPC should capture and ad a constraint for those events, so that an admin can look at a constraint violation r...
over 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 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...
over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

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.
over 2 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 3 Future consideration

qos support dio

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

The client cluster obtains the interface for creating iops/latency

The client cluster obtains the interface for creating iops/latency
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

FCM for VMware: Linux In-Guest Application Consistency

This enhancement request describes an important and very customer relevant improvement of the backup mechanisms of Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments (TSMfVE) and Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager (FCMfVE). The existing support to gene...
almost 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Spectrum Control Probe Execution Scheduling Customization below 24 hours

The Data Collection Schedule or Probe Scheduling does not go below an "Every Day" or 24 hours. I would like to be able to schedule the probe to execute multiple times through out a 24 hour period. Having the capability to customize the schedule to...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 5 Future consideration

SCDM - RFE title Granular LDAP queries than trying to scan in the entire AD Domain.

Storage Copy Data Management - We currently cannot handle scale for the amount of LDAP groups that are being attempted to be loaded for a case. Based on the error displaying an "out of memory" error message, it appears that the issue is related to...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Support for LSA (Local Security Authority)

It would be beneficial for everyone when it comes to security.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review