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SNMP 64 bit counters + CIM support

Proper 64 bit counters. Obtaining correct SNMP values (E.G. for pool sizes) is not as simple as it should be.
over 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

AFM queue control

Complete control over the order of each prefetch (analogy: priority WAN transfer queue for GPFS)
over 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

mmunlinkfileset -f report unmatch error message

[root@pnsd1 ~]# mmunlinkfileset aggr3 user_scratch -fUnable to quiesce fileset at all nodes.Fileset user_scratch has open files. Specify -f to force unlink. From above output we can see the error is not accurate reflecting customer's issue. They h...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Is a defect

Test SnapDiff with NetApp Infinite Volumes in Cluster mode

We need to have SnapDiff tested in Infinite Volumes on NetApps cluster mode. We currently are using NetApps 7-mode, but are in the process of upgrading these appliances to cluter mode. NetApp documentation states third party SnapDiff works in Infi...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Planned for future release

Indication for changed data amount between incremental FCs

Today there is no way to query the differences of the internal OOS bitmaps from the DS8000, but it is valuable request Is it possible to have this indication ?
over 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Set a Throughput occupancy threshold for TS7700

The client wants the TS7700 to have the option to parameterize a Threshold of Throughput, to monitor its occupancy, and when it exceeds the threshold send a message to the system.
over 6 years ago in IBM TS7700 3 Not under consideration

Add an option to disable Client Option Set Replication

Please add an option to allow TSM admins to disable the replication of Client Option Sets during a REPLICATE NODE operation, or to prevent the generation of ANR1946W messages (or perhaps only an information message).
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

vdismirror state properties

GUI don't show the state of the copyprocess of any vdiskmirror.The lsvdisk shows the state of each copy as sync yes/no. GUI only states online (or offline).This information is important for SVC stretched cluster operations.
almost 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Individual file backup/restore of system files in W2K8 and W2012

TSM 6.4 running on Windows 2008 R2 Standard. Effective with Windows Vista and higher (including Windows 2008), files that are identified as "System" files by Windows are automatically excluded from the filesystem backup. The files are backed up on...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

CSM concurrent Global Mirror point-in-time copies

We run with 4 Global Mirror failover/failback w/practice sessions that use the same Consistency Group hw session ID (0x3) and we would like to be able to perform the 'flash' point-in-time copies for all 4 sessions concurrently.
over 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

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