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    Spectrum Protect Plus ability to offload historical Data

    We need the ability to offload historical data to ICOS.The customer had an environment backing up for approximately 12 months before ICOS was implemented and we started offloading.The customer wanted all its historical data offloaded to ICOS howev...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    DS8000 REST API New functions

    Expand the DS8k REST API to include more functions that are provided today with DSCLI.
    over 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Future consideration

    Harmonize SV3 limits with 9500 ones

    SVC SV3 nodes are identical to FS9500 canisters. But even when customers are running SV3 nodes only clusters, the limits (eg volume count) are lower than for 9500s. This is hard to explain to customers if they're not running clusters with mixed ge...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

    TS7770 - Copy of TCT objects written by DS8910 on a TS7770 bucket to physical tape

    BrB - Banco de Brasilia, is requesting our support to have objects stored on TS77700 through DS8910 TCT function been moved physical tape.
    over 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Planned for future release

    Please bring back show hosts by host ports in the hosts menu

    Because its a pain having to view host properties then selecting the port definitions tab every time
    11 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Enable Storage Protect server to write its database backups to two sites in parallel

    For redundancy reasons, customers operate and replicate Storage Protect servers and user data in/ between multiple sites.A Storage Protect server is able today, to write user data ingested into the Storage Protect server to two storage pools in pa...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Quota calculation and capacity presentation based on files size

    User quota and file set quota are calculated based on allocated capacity on GPFS (kb_allocated). If files are moved to an external tier, e.g. by transparent cloud tiering, the file system utilisation will be decreased. Storage admins should have t...
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Protect Snapshot should recognize AIX LVM mirror setup after restore

    The customer operates multiple IBM Db2 databases on the AIX platform using LVM mirrored volumes.For performance reasons, specific LV to hdisk mappings are configured inside of the volume groups.Snapshot backups are created by IBM Spectrum Protect ...
    over 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    Display the "IOPs limit" parameter in Storage Insights.

    The lsvdisk command gives the information # svcinfo lsvdisk -delim , -gui -bytes 12 Tue Apr 15 11:22:05 PDT 2025id,12name,xxxxxxxxxxxIO_group_id,0IO_group_name,io_grp0status,onlinemdisk_grp_id,0mdisk_grp_name,XXXXXXXPoolcapacity,75161927680....com...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Needs more information

    Get serial number(SN) of Clearn Cartridge from Diamondback RESTAPI

    Alibaba(The largest Internet enterprise in China) plans to purchase a large batch of Diamondback libraries and magnetic tapes to store their code data. Asset management is a core priority. The customer requires full traceability of every purchased...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Diamondback Tape Library 0 Future consideration

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