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High redundancy SAS connection between expansion ecnlosure

The current design in SAS chain can't tolerate the middle of expansion enclosure fail.The middle of expansion enclosure failed will lead to pool offline.Customer hope IBM can provide high redundancy SAS chain to tolerate any of expansion enclosure...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Require key auth SSH only for Storage Insights, SpectrumScale

System: IBM Spectrum Control Storage InsightsActor: Organisation needing new auth-method enabled to be able to consume platform UQ has evolved data governance, capacity management and growth metrics as a key import factor in project planning and f...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

when the file name is longer then 255 character it does not get copied to the SMB share, in the future version we would like to see a error message, stating the file name is too long "

when a file is not getting copied, end user dont have any clue that file has not been copied from the windows. An error message would tell them to make the file name shorter.
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

CSM Topology Details Export to Not Add Spaces to CG/Session ID

Currently when we export the CSM Topology Details if there are Sessions/CG's which are a single character long, the CSV export will export those like ' 7' instead of just as 7 which means if we are using the data in another spreadsheet, we have to...
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 4 Not under consideration

Headline : require RPQ to be raised for new Host , storage (SVC 2145-DH8) combination as same is not present in SSIC

We want host OS, hba , fabric and storage micro code 8.3.1.5 to be listed in SSIC, currently its not present in SSIC , as a result we are not able to plan upgrade from 8.2.1.11 to 8.3.1.5 .
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Better estimation on tape capacity

At the moment TSM does not do any true estimation or ongoing estimation on the capacity of a tape.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM for VE: Eliminate ANS1711W warning message or change to informational.

Whenever the default backup mode is selected for a VMware VM backup (incremental forever, incremental) and a full backup has not been performed, a warning message is issued "ANS1711W Incremental backup selected for 'MLTUSAPV27', but a Full backup ...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus: can only search for databases, not SQL Servers or instances.

From our DBA:"For SQL backup, how do I search by server or SQL Instance name? Currently, I can only search by a database name. When a SQL Instance has more than one databases, how do I select a SQL Instance and run the backup so that it will backu...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Change or add algorithm that TSM will use to select scratch tapes.

TSM DRM tapes are checked out of the tape library, and taken offsite for disaster recovery. When the tapes are returned from offsite, and put back into the library and go back to scratch status, the acquired count goes back to 0. The tapes get use...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

IBM CES Object: Long lasting Swift transfers fail if Keystone token expires

IBM CES Object: Long lasting Swift uploads fail if Keystone token expires during the transfer.This applies to big files which are segmented (by the user, or by the default configuration), and to recursive uploads of directory trees.
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration