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MOVE DATA command enhancement (2)

After years of operations we have tens of thousands of tiny virtual volumes in TSM all belonging to one node. For example, QUERY VOL TSM-SERVER.BFS.106394469 F=D Volume Name: TSM-SERVER.BFS.106394469 Storage Pool Name: SERVER_ARCHIVE Device Class ...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Lock contention Issue

DB2 locking of a file or portion of a file with direct IO enabled causes issues with mmrestripe from a lock contention prespective.This should be addressed. The decision to change the disk location of a block and not allowing anyone to alter a blo...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

XRSC: Use CA trusted certificates on IBM XRSC servers

Our Proxy servers expect publicly trusted certificates from the vendor support centre servers ( IBM backend servers) that XRSC is communicating with via proxy servers. However, the backend servers are not using publicly trusted certificates.
over 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

XRSC: SSL encryption/decryption capability

Support of proxy new functionality ( SSL encryption/decryption) for HTTPS traffic with port 10443: This is not supported with the current version of IBM XRSC software.
over 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

improvements of the RC handling in the CSMCLI framework

For automation it would be easier if a validation of the return code is sufficient for successful CSMCLI command execution.Any Messages not equal Info Messages should result in a RC <> 0
almost 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Storwize V7000 automatic SNAP sent together with call home for problem notification

In case of hardware incident reported by automatic call home function of the Storwize have the possibility to send also an automatically generated SNAP.
almost 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

SSH ACCESS

Could you please provide SSH access in order to automatize some operations like backup of the conf ?
over 1 year ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Not under consideration

TRUE GUI

Why the GUI has a limited window size ? When it will be modern ?
over 1 year ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Not under consideration

Multiple block sizes at the pool level

Pools could be configured with different block sizes (not metablocks) based on workload requirement.
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

[BDA] Ability to see what is in the cache

Use:  mmlscache gives containing directory, file, size/blocks, % used of cache, cache hits, last access time etc.  -Y option
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 7 Not under consideration