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Spectrum Scale, a grace period can be configured before the quota is enforced

When using quotas on Spectrum Scale, a grace period can be configured before the quota is enforced. Native Scale commands can report on how much grace is left. SI (and presumably SC) doesn't report this.
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Increase number of logical volumes to be used on DS8K beyond 64K

Problem description: Extend the amount of logical volumes that can be hosted by one physical DS8K machine Current workaround: a.) spend a lot of mandays in order to consolidate multiple logical (!) volumes to less logical (!) volumes. b.) spend qu...
over 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

Windows 10 support

Please let us know when there is a TSM Windows client available to support Windows 10 operating system.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 1 Not under consideration

Support more Kafka Authentication Methods

Currently, SASL using plaintext username/password is the only Auth method supported for using the Notification feature in COS. Customers would like to use Kafka's more secure authentication methods. The request is to support all of the auth method...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

Ability to split/join storage pools from disparate COS systems

Customers would like to have flexibility with moving/splitting/joining storage pools under the ownership of different COS systems. For example, if a customer must divest a certain portion of data, but the rest, but also keep COS, there is no way t...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

TSM IBM

Customer request to get a TSM BA client supported on FreeBSD OS, and need to take this compatibility in the future releases
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Ability to create a cascade of clones that are independent from each other

If a database was cloned with FlashCopy Manager and this clone (D1) serves as source for another clone (D2) it is currently not possible to refresh D1 without deleting D2. For some scenarios this restriction has technical reasons. But by using ful...
almost 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Planned for future release

GPFS needs better contol over NSD IOs for mixed devices SSD + SATA

For a cluster that has a mix of SSD and SATA drives for different storage pools the current architecture queues IO to small (64K) and large queues. For the cluster I was examining we saw SSD IOs being blocked by slow SATA IOs on the NSD server for...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Restore Point in time to an alternate location or to the original SQL Server with a different name

Customer needs the functionality to restore a SQL database which was backed up using ISP4VE to an alternate location and to to a log roll forward until a specified point in time.Also the restore with a different SQL database name is required.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Worm requirement to honor the TMC expiratoin date when a volume is created.

Wells Fargo has a TS7700 related Worm requirement that would have the Ts7700 honor the expiration date specified by the Tape Management Catalog when a volume is created. This would prevent the volume from being inadvertently or maliciously scratch...
over 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

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