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Broadcast a warning message when the active logical volumes are near the logical volume license

In the current design, there is no alert setting that will broadcast a warning message when the active logical volumes managed is near the logical volume license. Many customers rely on automation to get an alert from any subsystem in their enviro...
almost 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Future consideration

List of expired logical volumes

When an expire hold is set on the TS77, the System deletes every hour an amount of tapes. We'd like to know what is deleted or even better, what will be deleted on a certain date. Having this list in zOS, we can compare the Information with the RM...
almost 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

add a default editor to the mmeditacl command

Currently there is no built-in editor for the command mmeditacl. However, there is a built-in editor for the command mmedquota. This is a request to add a built-in editor to the mmeditacl command.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Consider fiber channel port speed as attribute for alerting creation

Consider fiber channel actual and capable port speed as port attribute for alerting creation
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Ability to Offload/Copy ALL VSNAP DATA to Cloud Object Storage (not only the last backup)

Ability to Offload/Copy ALL VSNAP DATA to Cloud Object Storage (not only the last backup)
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add tunable to enable increase disk IO block size from 256kB

The TSM server on Linux is currently using Direct IO with a 256kB block size when doing IO to/from DISK/FILE volumes. The decision to use 256kB was made a long time ago, and the current state of technology is that this block size is simply to smal...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Direct SPP Primary Backups to Cloud Storage.

Direct Primary backups to Cloud Storage. without the need to send it first to vSnap and then create an additional copy to Cloud Storage
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

DS8000 extensive FlashCopy in a MTMM / GDPS environment

Customer has Mainframe with GDPS and MTMM running in his environment. They want to use their LinuxOne system (Linux ion z hardware) for DB2 Datawarehouse and also want to integrate this environment into the GDPS construct. (LinuxOne with eCKD Volu...
over 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Cloud pool with full local cache and no network connectivity should report out of storage space, or storage access error

When the local stgpooldirs are full for a cloud pool which has an unreachable cloud provider, attempts to write into that pool should fail, rather than hang.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Is a defect

Hung Disk to Cloud transfers should time out

When network connectivity to Azure is lost, Disk to Cloud transfer processes can hang. This is due to a limitation in Azure's OkHttp java API. SP should poll externally for hung sockets and time out, kill, or otherwise not hang pool operations. Si...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Is a defect

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