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[BDA] Cache control via runtime policy engine

If caching could be controlled by the policy engine, the user could intelligently control that valuable resource with respect to their known workloads / data types.
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

Liberty server should come back up automatically when TCPIP is restarted

If TCPIP is down and then is restarted, Liberty Server integrated into TPC-R should be able to reconnect to TCPIP without being restarted.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Enable mirroring on a managed disk level

An extension is requested, such that we could enable mirroring on a managed disk level. This would allow an administrator to select that two managed disks should be mirrored, resulting in a new mirrored managed disk object to be included in a give...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Support for SQL Server Express Edition

Please support SQL Server Express Edition. Technically, this should be no different than Standard Edition.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 4 Not under consideration

ITM TSM agent application support on zlinux ITM TEMS, TEPS servers

Previous enhancement request 27428 was closed with status of delivered and statement."This capability has been delivered with TSM 6.4 (TSM server 6.3.3). We have a small agent install in TSM 6.4 that will meet this requirement"This enhancement req...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 3 Not under consideration

Flashcopy Manager with AIX LVM and SVC Stretched Cluster Support

HI, today ther is FCM and AIX LVM Support for mirrored volumes if there are two disk subsystems. The problem with SVC stretched cluster design (two locations) is that there is only one subsystem and i can`t configure the toleration and deletion of...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration

Check for "detected hardware needing activation" to the SAN Volume Controller Software Upgrade Test Utility

Sprint. We recently performed an SVC upgrade from 6304 to 7109 on CG8 nodes. We overlooked the fact that these nodes had the 10G cards in them. As the upgrade was completing we started receiving the node error 841 for detected hardware needing act...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

List in GUI vdisk-view allocated capacity of all 3 tiers of a 3-tier-hybrid pool even one tier is not allocated

Can you list in the GUI's vdisk-view the allocated capacity value of all 3 tiers of a 3-tier-hybrid pool any time even one tier is not allocated ? In example:a volume contents of 100 extents (1GB), is assigned to 3-tier-pool10 GB Flash Tier alloca...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Can we have the option to add multiple TEC(Omnibus) hosts to dsmserv.opt (TSM)

Can we have ability to add multiple TEC(Omnibus) servers to the dsmserv.opt file in TSM
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

write priority selectable via GUI

Write priority should be selectable each time a new vdisk ist created via GUI or should be pre-defined e.g.via global settings (if possible).Most SVC installations (99%) are stretched cluster and in my opinion it is most important to select the ri...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

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