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    SVC integrated Host Free backup

    Integrate the TSM backup agent with SVC/DS*/V7K storage technologies to allow for block based backpup similar to TSM for VE * CBT. This would likely be done by leveragingcurrent Flashcopy technologies which already maintain bitmaps of change block...
    almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

    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...
    almost 12 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 12 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    DS8k Metadata volume

    On 8/3/2018 the HPFE in our DS8886 lost two drives at the same time, in the same rank. To recover we had to delete the entire storage pool because there is a volume of meta data for each storage pool, and that pool happened to land it on the faili...
    about 8 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

    Issue an alert for less physical capacity

    This idea is related to SCSI-I-1160. "Auto stop of Write operation against oops" may be too difficult, so I'll submit another idea. The customer encountered oops (Out of Physical Space) on FlashSystem 900 AE3 under V7000. The customer request...
    about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

    Inheritable CLOPT

    Allow the ability to nest client option sets such that they can inherit from each other.
    about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    GUI role for user with permissions to only manage Quota on Spectrum Scale

    We have several divisions who would need to manage their own quota on Spectrum Scale. According to the IBM DEV Team and Lab Services, users with one of the following roles should have access to the filesets/quotas: securityadmin admin protocoladmi...
    about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Ignore small differnces in tape formats when selecting tapes for write

    Tape selection criteria were modified in v1.3.3.0 to improve tape utilization: P1: The tape that is currently mounted in the selected drive.P2: Tapes with the least amount of capacity.P3: Barcode order: If there are multiple tapes that have the sa...
    about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Not under consideration

    qos throttle support -N remote-node

    qos throttle support -N remote-node
    about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 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...
    about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

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