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    Azure support included as a Container Pool for Spectrum

    We would like to have the ability to connect to Microsoft Azure for storage of our backups, or potentially to run our entire TSM environment in. Current disks available in Azure are too small to be used for storage pools, so would require access t...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

    Display Smart Drive Rebuild Progress to Customer

    IRS (U.S. Federal government) wishes to have the status of a Smart Drive Rebuild reflected in the log so that they can tell when the DS8000 starts it and when it finishes. It must be distinguished from a regular drive rebuild (RAID 5, 6, or 10).
    over 9 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

    Allow the use of cloud container pool as replication source

    At present, cloud container pools can be used as a replication target but not replication source. This is an issue as it means if the replication source server is destroyed or becomes unavailable, it is not possible to replicate the data back to a...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    Leverage Cloud container pool directory as restore cache

    SP 7.1.6 introduced the concept of using local storage as a fast ingest cache in a cloud container pool. I propose that the same or similar cache is used to mask the low per-stream object performance.
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Protect Snapshot PREREQ-checker silent install Mode

    Besides descriping it in the mainpage the Spectrum Protect Snapshot Prereq-checker (8.1.9.0-TIV-PREREQ-AIX.bin for example) is not able to be installed in silent mode with an response file.So automated installation on systems is not possible.
    almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    Store GPFS metadata blob as in the database, rather than as file data

    The GPFS data blob (which contains the file metadata, including the ACL's, storage pool assignment, atime, etc) is currently stored with the data, rather than in the database as metadata. This means that potentially very large amounts of data are ...
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    DB2 is backingup empty spaces

    - The fastest way to backup is to not back it up at all. Change DB2 backup method so that just "used" spaces are backedup. If "empty" spaces is still needed because of "performance reasons, than consider using posix_fallocate / fseek etc during re...
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Not under consideration

    Enable ESS and Scale GUI option to enter and display decimal

    Add the ability, in the ESS and Spectrum Scale GUIs, to show storage data in decimal (base 10) rather than binary (base 2). For example, in form fields and pull-downs, and in displays of capacities (total, used, free, etc.), allow "4 TB" to mean 4...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    snapdiff to update last backup fields in filespace data

    Could you please update the TSM snapdiff client to update the lastbackup information of filespaces when a "query filespace f=d" is issued. This would be the obvious behaviour and would be inline with the documented meaning of the columns This limi...
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 5 Not under consideration

    SVC Auto balance

    We have 4 IO/Groups under one stretched cluster ; we experienced some performance issues and the support team advised to migrate LUNs between the nodes; this is unfeasible as administrator can never balance the nodes manually , SVC should be aware...
    over 9 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

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