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Detaching BVIR processing from IBMTOOLS - Integration in TS7700 GUI

Hi, every TS7700 user knows the procedure with downloading ibmload, ibmcntl, ibmjcl... from the ibmtools library etc. This is necessary to be able to further process BVIR data generated by the system on the zos. In order to be able to process new ...
over 2 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 3 Future consideration

ESS should be able to notify customers if there is filesystem corruption (currently they can't in their default configuration).

There is NOTHING worse than undetected filesystem corruption in a storage system. But, as shipped to customers, all ESS storage systems will NOT notify you if there is filesystem corruption. They can _detect_ it, but they can't notify the customer...
10 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

Quota calculation and capacity presentation based on files size

User quota and file set quota are calculated based on allocated capacity on GPFS (kb_allocated). If files are moved to an external tier, e.g. by transparent cloud tiering, the file system utilisation will be decreased. Storage admins should have t...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Prometheus Exporter for Tape Library metrics

Currently the CLI and the REST API allows to monitor the TS4500 library by self written scripts. But it would be very useful to have a simple script which already provides all available metrics of the library to Prometheus. In our Environment we u...
about 1 month ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

Configure TSM4VE without SP Admin Access

IBM Storage Protect is a popular Service Provider product and it is possible to buy backup functionality using IBM Storage Protect as a backup engine. But all of them is created to only run old legacy backup like installing client in the operating...
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

API Connect support for Storage Fusion Regional DR asynchronous data replication

Need native supportability for Storage Fusion Regional DR asynchronous data replication for IBM API Connect (IBM Cloud Pak for Integration on Red Hat OpenShift). Since both are IBM owned, it would be great if both teams (Fusion and Cloud Pak for I...
about 1 month ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

ECE edition 5.1.9 version support 256 storage node in one cluster

as title, we need 5.1.9 version(LTS)support 256 Necessary
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Functionality already exists

SnapMirror 2 Tape NetApp - Restore Data to a different NetApp (CASE: TS013360935)

SnapMirror 2 Tape NetApp - Restore Data to a different NetApp (CASE: TS013360935)
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Remove Node Feature in Spectrum Scale CNSA

Currently in the CNSA Implementation there are no way to reduce a define CNSA-Cluster to one or more Nodes, like a mmdelnode step. The Operator has no function to do these necessary step to reduce a cluster with these request.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Future consideration

Check and Remove existing IR bitmap when Preparing for Secondary Migration to avoid full copy during resync to new secondary

The CSM secondary migration feature uses the IR bitmap on the primary system to perform an incremental resync to a new secondary system. Actually, when CSM perform the Prepare for Secondary Migration step, it will request the DS8000 to set the IR ...
11 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration