IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    API to return changed blocks since last backup

    While Spectrum Scale synergy with Spectrum Protect (TSM) is great and completely adapted to the backup of a file system that is hosting a very large number of files (basically used as a file server) that are added every day and some of them being ...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    include tape pool in eeadm drive list

    In eeadm drive list command, try to include options to print a more information, like: - Include a column with Node Name instead of Node ID for clarity- Include a column with the tape pool name of the tape mounted
    about 7 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Not under consideration

    Tape errors recorded only in Volumes table and not Libvolumes table

    TSM only records read and write errors in the volumes table, which is reset every time a volume is returned to scratch.It would be advantageous for errors to also be recorded against the library volumes entry, which would not be reset when volumes...
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    SPP micro version

    We are an IBM business partner and have small and large scale customers.Spectrum Protect Plus is set for 48 GB 1000 VMs with minimum ram requirement, but we also have many customers with 50 -100 VMs.These customers think 48 GB is too much for ram ...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Expand mmrsync to accept filelist

    mmrsync accepts the filenames only as parameters. Extend it to also accept a filename containing a list of files to sync.
    over 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Copy Data management duplicate job option

    Customer would like the ability in the jobs tab.The ability to right click a job and to duplicate.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    Move Data from old copy pool to new copy pool

    In order to handle tape media upgrades or tape recording format upgrades, customers need the ability to MOVE data from an old copy pool to a new copy pool
    almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

    Change of srvmon directory to different path instead of instance path

    Our instance home directory which is 20 GB in size is getting full as the hidden collection folder in srvmon directory is using up to 15 GB of the space in instance directory before it can get purged.
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    possibility to tag all tcp/ip package with QoS tags

    We have problems that the backup and recoveries has an impact of business traffic on remote locations.Especially if the backups and recoveries takes so long time that they exceed backup window and extend on to normal business hours.
    almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

    CES IP - bulk add of mmces addresses in node-affinity

    We have found that for deployments of 16 or more CES nodes that node-affinity mode is the most predictive and stable, the challenge is in deployment time. In balanced mode all of the addresses can be deployed in 1-2 minutes. With 32 CES nodes runn...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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