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    SSD Cache for Archive backup extraction

    we are using SP as a backup repository in order to archive backups from SPP to tape. during archive backup. the data is compress at the vsnap, stored to colddatacache pool and then migrated to tape on the SP server. the restoration process is the ...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Under review

    When looking for PII in a file, storage fusion catalog only detects the first instance of the PII element and stores it in a database as opposed to storing all PII elements in a file.

    1. Problem: When looking for PII in a file, storage fusion catalog only detects the first instance of the PII element and stores it in a database as opposed to storing all PII elements in a file. For example, consider a pdf file (fileA.pdf) that h...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

    Detect additional types of PII using Watson NLP/ Watsonx.data integration for Storage Fusion Catalog

    Detect additional types of PII using Watson NLP/ Watsonx.data integration for Storage Fusion Catalog. Problem Statement: Today Storage Fusion Catalog has regular expression (regex) pattern matching capability to detect PII in unstructured data. Wh...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

    Describe how to install/upgrade purchased DAE/DME license files when first using Spectrum Scale Developer Edition

    Client wants to install Spectrum Scale Developer Edition today while waiting to receive their DME licenses. Requesting documentation which describes how to install/upgrade purchased DAE/DME license files when Spectrum Scale Developer Edition is cu...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

    Improve 'mmvdisk filesystem delete' behavior

    When deleting a vdisk set from a filesystem the command is: mmvdisk filesystem delete --file-system udata --vdisk-set VS2It responds with:mmvdisk: This will run the GPFS mmdeldisk command on file system 'udata'But it does NOT say what it is going ...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    EasyTier Pool new extent allocation on specific Tier

    Build an option for SVC Easter pools so that we can set the allocation of new extents to a specific tier level.
    over 11 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    SP Operation Center Front-End licensing improvement

    Please, improve the functionality of front-end licensing on SP Operation Center. Currently, it is only showing active-data on the front-end licensing which is not completely true.
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    TSM should support the shared tapedrive feature of TS3500

    TSM 7.1 on AIX 7.1 with TS3500 tape library. ANR8300E I/O error on Ts3500 tape library OP=(00006c03). I have 4 E07 tape drives in this physical library I have 2 logical libraries with the robotics and one tape drive assigned to each library, and t...
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

    Manually importing global mirror relationships from IBM Storwize products to IBM CSM without deleting consistency groups

    Should have capability to import existing Global Mirror relationships to Copy Services Manager.
    over 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

    Moving the TSM Server parameter DIRECTIO NO from a server-wide option into a device class specific parameter

    The Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) server will, by default, use non-buffered I/O bypassing the file system cache. By specifying the server option DIRECTIO NO within the dsmserv.opt, this behavior can be changed – means TSM is using the file system c...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

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