IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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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...
    over 11 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...
    over 11 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Inheritable CLOPT

    Allow the ability to nest client option sets such that they can inherit from each other.
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Export Library Activity from GUI and REST API

    Talked with Jason Peipelman and IBM RAS engineer about this request and they all agreed this is a good idea, not just this product but all library products. This Library Activity is visible on GUI, but customer would like to download this informat...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Implement recommission* node in OC

    Missing the possibility to recommission a node or vm with the OC. Only the command decommission is available.
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 3 Future consideration

    Supports Key Wrapping over KMIP Protocol

    Key wrapping is a cryptographic algorithm which aims to provide “privacy and integrity protection for specialized data such as cryptographic keys. KMIP Protocol currently supports the Key Wrapping functionality but IBM Storwize V7000 do not suppor...
    over 7 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under 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 11 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 11 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

    AFM queue control

    Complete control over the order of each prefetch (analogy: priority WAN transfer queue for GPFS)
    over 11 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    Test SnapDiff with NetApp Infinite Volumes in Cluster mode

    We need to have SnapDiff tested in Infinite Volumes on NetApps cluster mode. We currently are using NetApps 7-mode, but are in the process of upgrading these appliances to cluter mode. NetApp documentation states third party SnapDiff works in Infi...
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Planned for future release

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