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Suppression of ro BR token when reading at RO mode

A BR token is used to keep cache coherency of data across nodes. We experienced that 'ro BR' token is requested by each node even other nodes read the same rage of data at the same time. Unless the range is never changed by all nodes, getting of r...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

FlashSystem intelligent QoS

Although FlashSystem / Spectrum Virtualize have the capability of do throttling of IOPS and MBps to a specific LUN or Pool, I have more than one customer that would like to have the capability of specify SLO, for example, implement QoS with differ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Not under consideration

Need web client support in IBM Spectrum Protect V8.1.2 or later server.

Web client is extensively used in our environment ( TSM 8.1.1). To fix bugs that are impacting user jobs, TSM will be upgraded to V8.1.3 in the near future.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 9 Not under consideration

Add new option for the tag value in content search policy: "1st Capturing Group"

In content search policies, you can use a regular expression to match content, selecting True/False or "Value matching expression" to be used as the tag's value. For example: Regular Expression: \b[\w_-]+\d{5}[\w_-]+\bContent: /opt/applications/da...
over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 3 Not under consideration

Avoiding full volume background copy after restoring of one FlashCopy relation in DS8K multiple incremental FlashCopy env.

The environment we request this enhancement is in DS8K multiple incremental FlashCopy with cascading FC support. In this environment, The customer will have two incremental FC relationships from one source A as Step1 bellow. Actually they will tak...
about 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Retain CSM level after HMC Kernel update

When CSM is upgraded outside of a Remote Code Load (RCL) using the stand alone DSCLI and an RCL occurs afterwards where the HMC kernel is updated, CSM is back-leveled to the version that is included in the microcode bundle. This forces the User/Ad...
about 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 4 Not under consideration

Introduce effective quality management

During the last year, we saw many new ISS code levels, most of them with critical errors that could lead to data corruption or data loss. Fortunately, many costumers were spared from data corruption, but they had to update Scale nearly monthly to ...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Add duplicate volser tolerance to copy export merge and cluster/grid merge process

I attached a präsentation about this requirement
almost 2 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Not under consideration

Quota calculation and capacity presentation based on files size

User quota and file set quota are calculated based on allocated capacity on GPFS (kb_allocated). If files are moved to an external tier, e.g. by transparent cloud tiering, the file system utilisation will be decreased. Storage admins should have t...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum IBM Spectrum Protect Replication to 3rd SP Server and/or Public Cloud Storage

We can currently only replicate a node's data to only 1 IBM Spectrum Protect server. Various customers now have a requirement to replicate to a 3rd site or to the cloud.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 6 Not under consideration

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