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Add ess3200 to general gpfs H36 cluster

The clustomer already install gpfs on 4 nodes(h36 cluster). The customer want to use ILM to place hot data on high performance storage pool. Deside to add ESS3200 to this cluster.
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale System 2 Not under consideration

Tool to reset damaged files without "audit volume"

Sometimes there is some error condition while the TSM server is reading a tape (tape failure, drive failure, network failure, other). In many of these cases, the TSM server marks the files it could not read as "damaged". The standard way of making...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

exclude.vmdisk into client option set (cloptset)

Currently, the exclude.vmdisk cannot be set centrally on the TSM server by using the cloptset.So if you have multiple data movers, you have to set it locally on each data movers.Currently, we are managing between 500 - 600 VMs, spawn on 4 virtual ...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

support for chown/chgrp via API + policy engine

Add API calls for the purpose of changing file/directory ownership. This could also then be exposed in the policy engine.
about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Storage Insights to retrieve Timezone from DS8 HMC configuration and not from DS8 internal OS

We have found during a problem ticket TS001724631 we had raised to SI support that SI is pulling the timezone for a DS888X system from the internal OS running on the array, and not from what is configured in the HMCs as it should be. Please update...
over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Add support for EMC NVB using NDMP

Add support for EMC NVB to speed up NDMP Backups of EMC filer file systems
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Support for Linux on IBM z Systems

Support for Linux on IBM z Systems is needed for DB2 ACS invoking IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot - formerly IBMTivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager.
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Not under consideration

Add Wait parameter to AUDIT VOLUME command

Add parameter WAIT to the AUDIT VOLUME command. If set to YES, the AUDIT VOLUME would wait until the process is finished before continuing with the next command or next line in the script.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM - events tabel sql queries prb

Info from support:I've discussed the issue with our developers, and the symptom you see is caused by staging tables we are using to fulfill the SQL requests. I tried to confirm a perfoamnce APAR with them and I could open one if you insist, howeve...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

‘Max retries' and ‘wait time' value for VM backups

One of our TDPVE datamover has been logging the following message for 3 days:ANS0361I DIAG: The VDDK Utility Thread may be hung processing another request.ANS0361I DIAG: Waiting up to another 3600000 milliseconds to process a request to VddkFullVM...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

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