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    Monitoring the number of I/Os prevented by Throttle for a vdisk.

    This RFE is to have a monitoring / statistics capability of throttled volumes, to see how many I/Os exceeded the configured limit. This is useful for clients to adjust the throttle when too many I/Os are being "paced". Competition (HP storages) al...
    over 7 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    We hope IBM will also create a system configuration guide for us.

    This time, I selected the TS4300 for convenience.My request applies to all storage hardware products. In Japan, computer equipment manufacturers create guides called "System Configuration Guides." These documents explain what is required to connec...
    about 2 months ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 0 Under review

    Migrate/Tier older data from containerpool to tape

    Hello, we use large file pools for our backups, these pools store a number of days of backups, then older/cold data get migrated to tape.Currently we have some severe pains with the file pools when migration is done to a collocated storagepool, se...
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Functionality already exists

    Multi-session retrieve functionality

    Similar to an older idea Multi-session retrieve [SPF-I-947] I would very like IBM to reevaluate and hopefully support multi session support for Archive retrieve workloads. With the current implementation it is not feasible to archive data to ISP a...
    10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Future consideration

    Allow to remove commands from AlwaysOnServermon

    The SP server AlwaysOnServermon is a very useful and well accepted support tool. Nevertheless, in some situations diagnostic SP server commands executed by servermon my cause trouble to productive SP server environments. In our case, SHOW ALLOC ca...
    12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    SPP to backup resources (metadata) from Kubernetes, not only pv, by namespaces

    We need support for backup of a namespace being not only able to backup and restore PV but also secrets, ConfigMaps, deployments, routes, services. of a Kubernetes namespace
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    Improve performance when retrieving partial tapes by using RAO/oRAO on supported tape drives

    IBM Enterprise tape drives (TS1140/3592-E07 onwards) supports Recommended Access Order (RAO). LTO-9 drives supports Open Recommended Acces Order (oRAO). This feature allows a tape drive to advise an application on the optimum retrieval order based...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Future consideration

    To schedule performance reports and to send by mail

    As recomendded by @jeff.sanc in case TS019586672, I am submitting this idea because I was a user of the Cognos and Spectrum Control. I used to receive scheduled report by mail everyday with performance report of the storages. In the Storage Insigh...
    8 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

    Eliminate divisive language from your products

    We're almost 1/4th of the way into the 21st century ... no IBM product should use terms like master/slave, blacklist/whitelist, etc.
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale System 1 Under review

    Have CDM support use DB_UNIQUE_NAME identifier for discovery of Oracle data guarded databases instead of DB_NAME (or as an alternative option)

    Any customer using Oracle Data Guard would find this useful. All databases within a dataguard configuration must have the same db_name value, it's an Oracle requirement. In order to distinguish one database from another within the configuration, t...
    10 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management 1 Submitted

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