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TS77xx Library Manager search virtual volume add smfid or system name where volume was last used

Currently, when searching the vitual volume via Library Manager or via IP address Management Interface, or when issuing LI REQ,lib-name,LVOL,volser command from z/OS, the information that is received does not include where the last system where th...
over 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Future consideration

Scale IP balancing code with NFS and Samba

Nfs crash on protocol nodes brings down samba with ces root. "While waiting for the abrt trigger, please investigate why NFS crashes bring down Samba. There are cases that NFS crashes do not bring down Samba in the past.
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

NSD client IO should have a time-out and a retry tunable per filesystem (JUMP Trading LLC)

The current Spectrum Scale configuration does not give the customer the ability to provide a timeout or retry values to NSD client IO. Since these tuning parameters do not exist, this can result in hung IOs or unexpected IO errors when the NSD ser...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

TSM V6 database Reorg Status

The requirement is to be able to report the status and progress of database Reorg from within TSM rather than through DB2 (e.g. query database f=d - is it finished and if not how much more to run). Also it would be good to be able to schedule reor...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

prioritize free space balancing in container storage pool directories more efficiently

For example: rather than filling some directories up to 100% while leaving others at 40%, have all directories at 60%Currently experiencing an ongoing issue for over 1 year where directories are maxing out at 100% full because it fills them up wit...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Notification of events related to the temperature of SVC cluster nodes in the Storage Management (GUI).

We need to view on the Storage Management or a event log, the events related with the temperature threshold of the SVC nodes.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

SVC Snaps - customer related info

SVC Snaps contains data such as IP , host names .customer request to remove the sensitive data from snaps
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Reduce Spectrum Protect Operatin Center query to bring down load on SP database

Regarding TS004537647. That is correct that there's no issue with finishing the daily work in a timely matter. There are some tunables to reduce the frequency of queries or stop them altogether. One of the background threads that is the busiest is...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale DMAPI Locking issues

mmap calls are allowed against files where we have acquired DM_RIGHT_EXCLUSIVE, as long as the handle used for mmap was opened before the exclusive right was acquired. Acquiring DM_RIGHT_EXCLUSIVE access on a file with current active mmaps succeed...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

TSM Meta Data Only Replication

TSM Meta Data only replication
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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