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HSM Slow Recall in LAN Free environment

got the following feedback from development: [...] as stated by GPFS development, the dm_request_right takes a lot of of execution time due to required context switches. More calls of dm_request_right causes the greater slowdown. So,in order to im...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 2 Not under consideration

SVC should not Assert if the other node within the I/O group is down (SYS4866)

IBM GTS Services Delivery requests STG implement a fix so that if a node within an I/O grou is down, or is in the process of asserting, the second node within that I/O group will not assert (reboot). Note:1) Before Reboot, check state of other nod...
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

SNMP Trap when NTP synchronisation failed

Customer requires that a SNMP trap is issued when the resynchronization with the NTP server can't be completed whatever the reason.Synchronisation of all DS888x is paramount for debugging purposes.
almost 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Add missing return codes to dsmrc.h for Tivoli Storage Manager to assist customers in problem determination

Return codes such as 362 and 363 are not documented for example so PMRs must be opened for proper problem determination. More cost efficient for customers if documented at: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSGSG7_7.1.8/api/r_ret_code...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Not under consideration

Inheritable CLOPT

Allow the ability to nest client option sets such that they can inherit from each other.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Optional short notification for Spectrum Virtualize produts

The Spectrum Virtualize family of products produce a length alert email, which is suitable for consumption by support. However, customers may choose to send critical alerts to some form of paging device. These devices may not be able to display th...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Supported for LDAP Configuration user passwords to include dollar symbol

Spectrum Discover does not currently support the "$" symbol in the LDAP Admin user password when setting up LDAP authentication.We would prefer to include special characters in the password for security, we request "$" be allowed by Spectrum Disco...
over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Planned for future release

Would like choice to ONLY show tags for selection if present in results list

When we search through metadata and get a table of results, we can choose which columns to show and which to hide Many tags are not defined for my selections results, we would like to only have tags present in the results list in the tag column di...
over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

Bootable restore CD with TSM 7.1 client GUI

We would like to have a bootable disk with a TSM 7.1 GUI for performing bare metal Windows OS restores on a server.We have created a Windows PE disk with the command line client version, which works.However, performing a restore from the command l...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

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 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration