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    add scsi addressing in INCLUDE.VMDISK parameter

    Description of the problem:Our policy should be to make only an image VMbackup with TSM for VE of only the OS-disk. Making VMbackups of the data-disks with TSM for VE should not be allowed.For 91% of the VM's (+/-4200 VM's) , the OS disk with SCSI...
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

    Support for more than 16 tape drives

    Michael at Navy Federal Credit Union would like to be able to add more than 16 tape drives to TS7700 in future.
    over 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Not under consideration

    Ability to change Cluster ID without an outage

    As a future TS7700 feature, Michael Yuan at Navy Federal Credit Union would like to be able to change the cluster ID without an outage. He would like to put a new node into the cluster and migrate everything to it. Currently, he has to do a manual...
    over 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Not under consideration

    GPFS supports parameters to control the memory of pmcollector

    Status: Excessive memory occupy
    over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    TSMve filerestoreUI and Windows Workgoup

    The ability to restore from the new web interface "filerestoreUI" windows machines that are not integrated into a Windows domain (in workgroup mode)
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

    SVCDTA DB2 cancel restore

    When restore of DB2 is executed, there is no possibility to cancel restore and try with another one, until restore is completed in background.We use NOCOPY option for backup. FMM19183E IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot adapter for the SAN Volume Contr...
    about 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    Multiple databases managed by a single instance

    Known Issues and Limitations Specific to the IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for DB2 Component. If there are multiple databases managed by a single instance, only one of these databases can be protected by IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot.
    about 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    Snapshot directories should be separate mountpoints or snapshotted files should have unique inode numbers

    In Linux, files in Spectrum Scale snapshots have the same device id(st_dev) and inode number (st_ino) as their live counterparts. Theyhave the same device because all snapshots in a filesystem are under thesame mountpoint as the live version of th...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    DS8000 needs to allow customer access to detailed debugging logs for cloud related activities.

    Currently network activity and error states between the DS8000 and cloud porividers, and also between DS8000 and z/OS, is not available to view. The only log available is the audit log which does not provide detail on how the DS8000 preceives or h...
    over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

    File Access Logging support for read only remote mounts

    File Access Logging in Spectrum Scale 5.1 eliminates the need for kafka, but it only works if the filesystem is mounted read/write. So a remote cluster with a RO mount is not supported by FAL.
    about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

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