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    NSD client IO should have a time-out and a retry tunable per filesystem (JUMP Trading LLC)

    The current Spectrum Scale configuration does not give the customer the ability to provide a timeout or retry values to NSD client IO. Since these tuning parameters do not exist, this can result in hung IOs or unexpected IO errors when the NSD ser...
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

    FCM - Managing Multiple SQL instances from one console

    There are 2 instances of SQL which have been configured with 2 separate optfiles as per the old standard however the Flashcopy manager gui defaults to use the dsm.opt file in c:\program files\tivoli\tsm\tdpsql folder. We need to have separate shor...
    about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Planned for future release

    Increase tagname character limit from 32 to 64 characters or more

    We are using Spectrum Discover in a research and academia environment. Whenlooking towards how we will curate and manage tags as the number of includedprojects grows, we see that the tagname limit of 32 characters is a problem.When extracting exif...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Future consideration

    Display information about encryption technology used in GUI & CLI encryption command

    Display information about encryption technology used in GUI & in CLI encryption command - which will help customer's cybersecurity team - requested by customer. Check this thread in slack # specv-sme-se = https://ibm-systems-storage.slack.com/...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Fusion HCI Cloud Provider for OpenShift IPI

    The idea here is to extend HCI+HCP platform strategy here to support IPI compatible OCP deployment. Current list of IPI supported platforms (circa OCP 4.14) By "IPI compatible" I mean HCI systems can be consumed by the openshift installer in the s...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 3 Not under consideration

    allow versioning/history for objects of S3 clients

    Allow versioning/history for objects of S3 clients. It would allow automatic expiration of older versions. This would help implementing smooth S3 backup solutions for many modern "cloud" databases and similar tools, like Postgres, MongoDB, Hashico...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Needs more information

    Import existing hardware copy services relationships directly by CSM

    Customer is using DSCLI to manage Copy Services relationships and now they want to migrate the existing CS relationships to CSM, but customer have a lot of DS8Ks and CS relationships, it's not easy and time consuming to do it manually, we also tri...
    almost 9 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

    Trigger Error 1195 A node has been missing for 30 minutes after any condition that has a node in a non functional state.

    Generally the sequence we have seen is a 1196 warning email that a node has failed and then 30 minutes later an 1195 error indicating that the node has been gone for 30 minutes, which also generates an email, and a call home. What we have experien...
    about 11 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Not under consideration

    Multi-session retreive operations

    As described in Technote 1571833. Multi-session restore functionality does currently not cover archive retreive operations. We need Multi-session retreive operations like for restores.
    about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

    CDM integration with Power VMR-DR

    Today CDM does not support integration with VIOS on AIX as it does with ESXi. VMR-DR integration on the power side of the house would allow for a complete package to be presented for customers on AIX looking to do Disaster Recovery.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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