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would like a ballance stgpooldir command

This occurs when adding directories for added space to a spectrum protect container. The existing directories are very full, and the newly added directories remain very empty. There is no balancing of data across the newly added and existing direc...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

move retention data from one storage pool to another

It's not currently possible to move retention data from one storage pool to another. It is possible to move retention data to different volumes in the same storage pool. LTO9 tape volumes. That said, this might be a little more difficult to do wit...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Future consideration

Schedule upgrading Spectrum Scale Nodes on OpenShift with ibm-spectrum-scale-controller-manager

We have different OpenShift workers in different MachineConfigPools. Each Pool represents a different client. We want possibility to alter or schedule the upgrade order of spectrum scale nodes of worker pools which are in spectrum scale Cluster (C...
7 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Query files content of a container

Be able do list the files stored in directory/cloud container.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Restore VM to the max. possible configuration in case of any issues detected instead to force restore only to minimal config

We have now experienced several situations where VM's were restored with only a minimal configuration because of problems (e.g. maximum number of available ports in port group was reached, unrecognized new parameters in VM config etc.). For furthe...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Syslog messages forwarded to a syslog server have to be encrypted by TLS protocol

in our data centers syslog messages have to be encrypted. we got an open risk because Tape Libraries send syslog messages unencrypted to the syslog server.
4 months ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Future consideration

Enable STG RULES to perform dual copy to tape of Object Client data

There is currently a limitation in the product whereby the STG Rules feature cannot be used to create double copies of Object Client data received from IBM FUSION using the Amazon S3 protocol. The only option available to copy this type of data is...
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

PLAC0812-1536 Parallel access read support for virtual tape

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: Carles.ArisSubmitters Company: la Caixa PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PLAC0812-1536 Parallel access read support for virtual tapeHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core TechnologyCurrent Status: Closed ...
over 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 3 Planned for future release

Litigation Hold Property on File Spaces.

Provide an ability to prevent expiration processing to occur for a file space when a node becomes part of a "Litigation Hold" issue. The status of enabled would over-ride expiration processing of files/folders in the file space. Microsoft Exchange...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Not under consideration

FlashSystem Freeze time delay metric

When I do my nightly data refresh from my Corporate FlashSystem to my remote Disaster Recovery FlashSystem, the 'Freeze time' in the "Copy Services" - "Remote Copy" - "Consistency Group" - 'Freeze time' falls behind from being current. I would lik...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Not under consideration

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