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Backport lsportstats to 8.3.1.x code stream

In the SVC 8.4 code SFP statistics have been made visible via the CLI lsportstats command. We would like to see this backported to the SVC 8.3.1.x code stream which is the current advised code stream by IBM.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

MOVE DATA command enhancement

The enhancement I'd like to see is a PREVIEW option on the MOVE DATA command. The preview would summarise which tapes will be required for the move but would not actually move any data. Knowing which tapes will be required can be important in situ...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Request to add native Sybase Support to Spectrum Protect (DP for Sybase)

Sybase produces Enterprise class RDBMS solutions for a variety of uses cases and industries. While perhaps not as pervasive as MS SQL or Oracle, the product does appear fairly frequently in customer environments. While there are a variety of metho...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Not under consideration

SVC-Allocated Core (CPU) per volume

Hi, Our customer need to have the following feature (available at competition): To monitor Core (CPU) usage by Volume and info on percentage used.
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Change default to Power On VM for clone and production restores

Restore functionality - Power on VM - Production & clone restore powers on Shouldn't be default to power on as Power On VM was not ticked. Default should be leave powered off unless that option is ticked
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Option to expand past 24 Flash Core Modules with NVMe expansion enclosure

In GTS we have set a All Flash strategy and need the option to expand past the 24 Flash Core Modules to provide high performance Flash with FCM HW compression to give a larger capacity when using the smaller 4.8TB and 9.6 TB FCM.
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum protect : restrict possible actions of a backup administrator on source data(prevent erasure)

As the data privacy and security become a priority for our client, we need to improve Spectrum Protect product to enhance data privacy and security. The aim of this RFE is to find a way so that a backup administrator (responsible of managing backe...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Need of dsmadmc command to query "SET ACCESS" grants

I would like to have the possibility to query "SET ACCESS" grants for all nodes and users from dsmadmc client like the single client user can do by dsmc client and command "QUERY ACCESS" for its own grants. I can do this kind of query connecting d...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

Automatic failover/failback target replication server for Backup &Archive operations

Automatic failover/failback target replication server for Backup &Archive operations.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Add /var/spool/clientmqueue to logrotate

HMC2 was unable to backup critical data or send emails due to writes to /var were failing with "[No space left on device]". The cause of this was because /var was completely out of inodes as a result of /var/spool/clientmqueue had accumulated over...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration