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Well-known tcp ports are run out by TIME_WAIT state if recalls are distributed to cluster nodes

Product: IBM Spectrum Protect for Space ManagementActor: User needs improvement of TCP port usage The product is bundled in our product IBM Spectrum Archive Enterprise Edition for space management of IBM Spectrum Scale. Description: In multi-nodes...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 3 Future consideration

Improve Host reporting in Spectrum Control

Spectrum Control has some ability to report hosts that are making use of resources, such as volumes on a Spectrum Virtualize pool. But this reporting is not complete.
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 3 Future consideration

allow users to add a delay to trigger ESC quorum race in case of sites being disconnected to allow for SAN re-connection

allow users to add a few seconds to the SVC re-try and decision process before triggering a quorum race in case of loss of connection between sites. This would allow redundant inter-site connection to complete SAN connectivity between sites fail o...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Multi Vendor Support for Snapshots in FCM/TSM

Snapshot-based DP for Applications (with a broad Application Support, including Replication Control to a secondary Storage, for virtual and native Servers, including Application driven Single File Restores and Catalog Support) is seen more and mor...
almost 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 4 Planned for future release

Request the ability to read and write C07 style tapes behind the TS7770 including previously written C07 tapes.

CTBC Bank currently use three TS7740 with GRID connection, we are proposing three TS7770 to replace them.Since CTBC did implement backup 3-2-1 policy. After daily backup jobs they did submit other backup jobs to physical copy those that need to be...
over 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

Open I/O slots to all logical libraries

IBM problem number866018YV3V TS4300 currently does not allow I/O slots to be visible to all logical libraries defined in the tape library. I/O can only be assigned to a single logical library. This is different to how other TS Tape Libraries work ...
over 4 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 2 Not under consideration

add fast format (quick format) in SVC

Please add quick format (or fast format) on spectrum virtualize platforms similar to as it's implemented currently on DS8000.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Support multiple INCR Flash Copy backups with DS8000 storage

Currently FlashCopy Manager supports only one Incremental FlashCopy backup can be performed in a DS8000 environment. With DS8000 Licensed Internal Code (LIC) 7.7.40 multiple incremental FlashCopy relationships became available. A single volume can...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Not under consideration

add scsi addressing in INCLUDE.VMDISK parameter

Description of the problem:Our policy should be to make only an image VMbackup with TSM for VE of only the OS-disk. Making VMbackups of the data-disks with TSM for VE should not be allowed.For 91% of the VM's (+/-4200 VM's) , the OS disk with SCSI...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Increase independent filespace limit

AFM, fileset snapshots and some other features can only be used with independent filesets. Thus GPFS customers are advised to prefer them over dependent filesets.But GPFS has a hardcoded limit of 1000 independent filesets per filesystem which is t...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

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