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Improve support for remote CES Protocol Clusters sharing only NFS exports, to support access to the same remote filesystem concurrently

The customer currently has more than. 32000 nfs exports across 5000 paths, which takes a significant amount of time to perform an export definition refresh (any time a new export is added) this generally in excess of 5 minutes for the export defin...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

VM move from one VC to another schould be recognized by SPP

In large and grown VMware environments it can happen that VMs have to be moved from one virtual center to the next in the same cluster. With Virtual Centers that have existed for many years, VMware Support may recommend installing a new VC and mov...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

Deligate tasks (migration) to data mover servers

When IBM TSM is used for archiving petabytes of data for long term, massive data migration is expected specially when changing media technology. Today, the migration process can only happen on the server, and thus creates a huge load on the server...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Red Hat Pacemaker Cluster Services support with IBM Spectrum Protect

IBM Services have many enterprise customers with regulatory requirements that requires high availability (HA) on all IBM Spectrum Protect servers that handle critical data both at on-premise data center as remote data centers. In cases where HA is...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Secure server_console account in spectrum protect

Server_Console account is not password protected which is a fail safe account in spectrum protect and need full privilege for this account. We can reduce privilege for this account; however, it will remove this account purpose which is a fail-safe...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Warning message in actlog when active log exceeds threshold

When active log exceeds threshold of 75% warning message ADM10501W (Health indicator "Log Utilization" ("db.log_util") breached the "upper" warning threshold of "75 %" with value "75 %" on "database" "xxxx.TSMDB1") is issued to db2diag log but the...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Client Deploy should be able to update TDP clients, or at least skip clients which should not be upgraded w/o TDP updates.

The current client deploy is not TDP aware. It is up to us to track which of the 8000 clients belong on the same host, and which ones are TDP. In some cases, seeing the policy domain and node name is enough to figure it out, but not always. Some T...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Not under consideration

Increase independent inode filesets from 1000 to 32k

We have a customer that requires their projects separated via independent inode filesets. They are against the 1000 fileset limit and need it to be increased to a more realistic number.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Remote Cloning support for ProtecTIER native replication setups (will also work for all alternatively replicated data)

Implement support for Remote Cloning of "alternatively" replicated data. This request ist written with having IBM ProtecTIER native replication in mind.Implement some kind of "single domain behaviour" into TSM to have a TSM storage agent running o...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 6 Not under consideration

Development team need to test the higher HBA drivers and Firmware levels to support TS4300 Tape library

Problem Statement: TS4300 Tape Library not detected from Windows 2019 OS end. Components Involved: Emulex LPe31000 HBA card and TS4300 Tape Library. Installed HBA card drivers version is : 14.0.376.10 Firmware : 12.8.351.7-11. As per the IBM Syste...
almost 3 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Not under consideration