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Windows explorer Feature

This demand aims at implementing a new feature providing a windows explorer like feature Please check the attached slides for more details
about 1 year ago in Storage Discover 1 Not under consideration

Problem with the limit of 256 sessions in one consistency group

My customer PSA manages the replications between his DS8886 with CSM.For production reasons, he defined one and only one a consistency group with a lot of sessions.In the documents it is mentioned that there is a limit to 256 sessions in one consi...
over 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 3 Not under consideration

Flashsystem should use multiple CPU cores to process I/O per Volume instead of just one core per Volume

Layer 3 Communications (Customer) was experiencing low performance/high latency issues on their FlashSystem 5030 on a large Volume. IBM Support was engaged and the SME told them that this is because the FlashSystem is designed to utilize only one ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

Global Mirror has too many tuneables and most real-world deployments require tuning

Product: Virtualize Products Description: GM and MM tuneables should be reduced in number and complexity. For example: The product could calculate the bandwidth requirements for a GM relationship based on the IO load on a system and either a user-...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale integration with HyperV

I have a customer which is pure Microsoft oriented. I wanted to sell them File storage and would like to use Spectrum Scale. As whole project will quite huge I would like to use as much of their infrastructure as it is possibly. I would like to us...
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

SPP Needs fallback for vmx-04 (without cbt = full)

Spectrum Protect Plus does not backup VMs with virtual machine hardware version (vmx) 04, because this version does not support CBT (changed block tracking). Spectrum Protect VE does backup these machines but makes a full backup every time (fallba...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Option to enhance ANR3654W Inventory file expiration when not using replication

When you are using the policies on the target replication server to manage replicated client-node data, you must run expiration processing every 24 hours to allow the target replication server reuse storage pool space that is occupied by expired r...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

ESS (GL6S) Temperature sensor failures require outage

The temperature sensor on the 4U106 Storage Enclosure is part of the chassis and can't be replaced online; it is necessary to take the entire enclosure offline in order to replace a failed one, resulting in an outage.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Not under consideration

FCM for VMware: Linux In-Guest Application Consistency

This enhancement request describes an important and very customer relevant improvement of the backup mechanisms of Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments (TSMfVE) and Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager (FCMfVE). The existing support to gene...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Ability to backup TOC objects to a Container pool.

There is an immediate need for the feature enhancement in Spectrum Protect to have the ability to backup TOCs to a Container pool besides current ability for backup server to collect and store file-level information in a table of contents (TOC) wh...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration