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Add the ability to track licensing of SCU and TiB in Storage Insights

With the move to adopt SI and eliminate the need for an on-prem Spectrum Control instance, one area that we cannot track in SI is Licensing. Today in Control we can list out all 4 tiers and usage of SCU and TiB. This report is useful for yearly su...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

TSM Audit library should not require setting the library "offline"

TSM Library Manager often loses information about the location of a cartridge in the library.Most of all cases happen after a Drive-, or Robot-mechanics failure.TSM Librarymanager then demands an "Audit Library".To do that "audit", we need to stop...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 5 Future consideration

Allow mmrepquota -j to filter fileset(s)

The synopsis of mmrepquota looks like this: Synopsis mmrepquota [-u] [-g] [-e] [-n] [-v] [--block-size {BlockSize | auto} | -Y] {-a | Device:Fileset ...} or mmrepquota-j [-e] [-q] [-n] [-v] [-t] [--block-size {BlockSize | auto}] {-a | Device...} o...
8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

Policy Based Replication Allow rename of Volume group with replication policy assigned

For our larger customers where we are (currently) replicating with GM/GMCV consistency group names are chosen alongside with the customer as they would like to easily identify by CG name to which application the volumes in the consistency group be...
8 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Please upgrade the TS7700 rsyslog protocol to use TCP with TLS

The current TS7700 rsyslog communications protocol is TCP in the clear. By adding TLS encryption to TCP, the communications will be more secure.
over 1 year ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Planned for future release

Support for Immutable Flag for ext4/xfs file systems

Please introduce support to use immutable flags in container and file storage pools for linux file systems like ext4 and xfs
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Display retentionset in the BA client

The new Retention set function (aka OneProtect) is great but from the BA client (or TSM4VE) it's not possible to see which retention sets that are available. Id like to get the info on "q retset" info in the server into the BA client. On the cli s...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

DS8000 SGC Monitoring, Reporting and Management with Manual and Auto Control

We are utilizing Safeguarded Copy across all of our Production environments. As the capability grows, so do the requirements in terms of capacity and performance. Regarding changes in capacity needs based on host activity or change in algorithm of...
over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

Moving the TSM Server parameter DIRECTIO NO from a server-wide option into a device class specific parameter

The Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) server will, by default, use non-buffered I/O bypassing the file system cache. By specifying the server option DIRECTIO NO within the dsmserv.opt, this behavior can be changed – means TSM is using the file system c...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

I would like VGS to be added to SPS

Goodday As part of our Oracle in a SAP environment landscape we do bi-weekly refreshes of PROD onto a QA system. We also get ad-hoc requests for other clones as well as clones for Projects that means we need to keep a snapshot around for 6-12 mont...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration