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    Provide progress reporting for inode scan activities associated with disk recovery operations.

    Problem Statement In large IBM Storage Scale (GPFS) environments, disk recovery operations can take a significant amount of time to complete. For example, our environment contains over 90 PB of data and billions of files across the cluster. Follow...
    4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    DS8A hardware support for a 3-way Copy relation

    Note: This case describes the need within a MGM4 solution, but could apply to certain setup in other 3-4-6 site solutions as well. We are in the progress of moving to a MGM4 solution with copy relation A-B-C-D. A C| / |B D In current design we can...
    4 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    Registering Storage Virtualize Provider

    Currently in order to register (as Provider) a Storage Virtualize or Storage VIrtualize for Snapshot the CDM identity is based on name/password credentials. It would be preferred to have user/certificate as a more secure alternative.
    5 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    Capability to throttle vdisk by defining a goal response time (possibility to delay an I/O to a value)

    There are an increasing number of clients asking for the functionality of specifying the goal response time of a volume (vdisk), so that it doesn't go faster than this goal and does not use resources that could be used by other volumes.
    about 7 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    Avoid to damage good tape media by bad drive

    In Baidu hyper scale tape storage system, we met many cases that good tape cartridges is marked to bad status because of bad drive. For example, drive1 is bad, Archive EE still uses it to write or read data and get the error result, Archive EE wil...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Future consideration

    Add support for SNMP v3 with Auth/Priv

    Required per JPMC auditors. Implement SNMP with Auth & Priv with minimum levels of Auth to be SHA256 and Priv to be AES256
    about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Future consideration

    Improved handling of MCDB-enabled databases by Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server

    Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server works as designed in respect to restore scenarios. But there is a challenge with exchange mailbox restores after enabling the Microsoft Exchange MetaCacheDatabase (MCDB) feature that prevents an DP4Exc...
    11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Submitted

    Requesting Storage Defender Development team to expedite development of support for Defender Sensors for Aix Os

    In most of the engagements in select accounts in India , there is at least a 50 % prevalence of Aix hosts , I suspect the case to be similar for multiple accounts in ISA & APAC region. While currently we have sensors for Rhel 9 , Suse & Ub...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 6 Future consideration

    Spectrum protect with java version 11

    The latest version of the Java that is supported with the SP for VE and the server is version 8 which means that Java version 11 is not supported as it hasn't been tested. But our customer is planning to remove Java 8 on all the servers across the...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 12 Planned for future release

    Allow Backup-Archive Client on Windows 11 Environment with Cloud Only (Azure) users

    As stated from IBM Support, Azure Users are not supported: Currently, the Spectrum Protect (TSM) Backup-Archive Client fails to run on Windows 11 if the cloud only user (Azure) is not a local administrator, even when added to the "Backup Operators...
    11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

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