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    SPP support for Tanzu environments

    backup/restore support for K8s running on Tanzu (PVC and etcd etc.) with SPP
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    resource aware scheduling in TSM

    I work with TSM for 9 years and the biggest TSM's weakness I found is the scheduling. All the large environments I worked on used some external scheduling application like TWS or Control-M to be able to keep the resources under control. The proble...
    almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 11 Not under consideration

    Allow use of directory other then /tmp for GPFS temporary files.

    We use GPFS / Spectrum Storage on our High Performance Computing Cluster for it's primary file system and use various mm* commands to monitor the health of the cluster and alert us if GPFS goes offline on a node. If a users HPC compute job inadver...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

    Expand TPI to more actions

    With the new TPI feature it is not possible to delete safeguarded snapshots. We would very much like the feature expanded to include operations such as deleting regular datastores in an attempt to prevent ransomware attacks. And before you say "ju...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    GUI should be quick to load overview pages, and defer the output of slow commands

    F.ex. on the GUI "pools" page, we're experiencing several minute loading time on large systems. It should not be acceptable that it takes this long to load any of the pages, particularly not the initial overview pages. Rather the GUI should only s...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Please, support to restore NDMP-formatted data retrieved from NAS in a cluster configuration from [tape media](LTO) to another NAS storage system

    Why is it useful? : A common-sense solution for backup restoration is achieved with the combination of NAS storage, ISPs, and tape media.Who would benefit from it? : Nearly all users operating tape backups on NAS storage with a cluster configurati...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Move node data from/to container storage pool

    Migration of data from/to directory-container storage pool to/from disk or tape based storage pool is not possible.We need the ability to choose where the data reside and move them as needed without using the node replication feature that requires...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Improve DIO on sparse files to avoid E-HOLE error

    The customer is using Db2 pureScale and allocates tablespace using preallocation.But there are enormous performance issue was caused by the DIO thrashing ( frequent switching back and forth between DIO and Buffered IO ) due to E_HOLE errors.We ana...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Help required for closing discovered vulnerabilities for SSS3500 storage - Group 5 -Security Settings & Install Updates, Patches and Additional Security Software

    Our TEL team is working with Customer State Bank of India to operationalise one new SSS 3500 that we sold to customer to replace the existing Gen2 GLS2 SSS Storage. As part of the internal security practices the State Bank of India runs their own ...
    6 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Planned for future release

    Help required for closing discovered vulnerabilities for SSS3500 storage - Group 4 -User Account and Environment & Pam & Encryption

    Our TEL team is working with Customer State Bank of India to operationalise one new SSS 3500 that we sold to customer to replace the existing Gen2 GLS2 SSS Storage. As part of the internal security practices the State Bank of India runs their own ...
    6 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Planned for future release

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