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    Message IWNR6000I doesn't show the good direction of replication.

    When i start GC H2-H1 the message sent by CSM is IWNR6000I Starting all pairs in role pair H1-H2. The message is confusing because it doesn't reflect the direction of the command.
    over 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Not under consideration

    GPFS for Linux aarch64

    Publish GPFS / Spectrum Scale for Linux on aarch64 aarch64 is supported by all Linux Versions (Ubuntu, Suse, Redhat) but not by gpfs
    over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Protect Support for CSVFS over CIFS/SMB

    As a first step towards RFE 105269 (Spectrum Protect Support for CSVFS) backup/restore of CSVFS file system via SMB/CIFS should be officially supported. Right now, it seems to work, but is neither tested nor supported, according to IBM. A "query f...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

    Tape management in Operations Center

    Using the TSM Operations Center - manage tape. Checkin, checkout, volume occupancy.
    about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Replication should not hang if target pool is hung

    When replicating to a cloud pool target, if a Disk to Cloud Transfer is hung, then replication hangs. Replication should have a timeout so that it can skip, abort, etc. rather than winding up locks.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Is a defect

    BA Client for ARM/ARM64

    ARM architecture user base is growing, and ARM servers needs protection too.
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 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...
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

    Increase available information on Audit log screen and reinstate scroll bars

    In Spectrum Virtualize 8.5.0.2 (SVC) the Audit log screen layout and functionality has changed compared to 8.4.0.6. Up until 8.4 there are 21 entries visible, on 8.5 this is reducted to only 10. Changing the row height (smaller) only adds addition...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Protocols - SMB: disable share (but keep in config)

    There is no way to temporary disable and SMB or NFS exports. The only way is to delete the export. (At least for SMB exports) It would be more convenient and less likely that you make an error if you could disable it instead of delete it. It would...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    Implement end-to-end checksums for non GNR environments

    Implement data block checksums in GPFS to protect against silent data corruption. This is particularly important in an FPO environment where there are no RAID controllers to protect against individual SATA drives returning bad data to the applicat...
    almost 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

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