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    Multiple block sizes at the pool level

    Pools could be configured with different block sizes (not metablocks) based on workload requirement.
    over 11 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 11 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 7 Not under 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 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Not under consideration

    add a default editor to the mmeditacl command

    Currently there is no built-in editor for the command mmeditacl. However, there is a built-in editor for the command mmedquota. This is a request to add a built-in editor to the mmeditacl command.
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 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 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

    Add data collector support for Linux operating systems on IBM Power® systems (PPC64, Big Endian).

    Add data collector support for Linux operating systems on IBM Power® systems (PPC64, Big Endian).
    over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Future consideration

    Deliver for each Server a GPFS Client for free

    GPFS aka Spectrum Scale is great- to reach a broader customer set, I suggest that we'll deliver a GPFS client/ NSD "driver for free" !
    almost 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    Support backup and restore of metadata

    Allow administrator to backup and restore GPFS filesystem metadata without losing data stored on dataOnly or dataAndMetadata NSDs.
    almost 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    SnapDiff backup for volumes mounted to a junction point

    NetApp's best practice recommends that volumes on a svm should be mounted to some junctions points not to the root volume (/). The result is that people cannot backup the FlexVols using SnapDiff. I understand APAR IT11729 has a fix for volumes mou...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    Lock retention on SLAs to keep data from being expired/deleted

    Option to define a SLA that will lock the snapshots from deletion until further notice.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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