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prevent uneccessary recalls / improve DMAPI support with snapshots

[ this an an idea for the DMAPI part of GPFS when working with Spectrum Protect for Space Management ] We suggest to improve the DMAPI handling code in GPFS to detect when premigrated files that are part of a snapshot and the orignal files is migr...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Node replication to multiple target servers

I thought this feature would be available in TSM server 7.1 but the following indicates otherwise. http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v7r1/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.itsm.srv.doc%2Fr_repl_restrictions.html Replication server configurationsA...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

XRSC: Use CA trusted certificates on IBM XRSC servers

Our Proxy servers expect publicly trusted certificates from the vendor support centre servers ( IBM backend servers) that XRSC is communicating with via proxy servers. However, the backend servers are not using publicly trusted certificates.
over 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

XRSC: SSL encryption/decryption capability

Support of proxy new functionality ( SSL encryption/decryption) for HTTPS traffic with port 10443: This is not supported with the current version of IBM XRSC software.
over 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

TSMve filerestoreUI and Windows Workgoup

The ability to restore from the new web interface "filerestoreUI" windows machines that are not integrated into a Windows domain (in workgroup mode)
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Request to support kernel version 5.4.15.x

Our OEM parnter Inspur Electronic Information were resold many ECE cluster to their customers. One of key issue is limited kernel supported in Storage Scale. Their customer need flexible support policy to kernel version. Their customer need to use...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale Snapshot onto Tape

Customer requires Spectrum Scale snapshot function onto tape media (via LTFS EE).
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Manually provide Product and LUN-Identifiers for sd*-disks

Spectrum Protect Snapshot (SPS) identifies the available disks by issuing a series of low-level Linux commands which deliver the LUN-ID and Product-ID of these devices. Among others:- dmsetup- searching /sys/block/sd*/dev- Requesting SCSI pages 0x...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

VSC, Self Service portal, increase in number of allowed servers mapings for a volume for ESX, Hyper-V

A customer in middle east having VMware Cluster and Hyper-V with more than 20 physical servers. But VSC 5.2.5, Self Service portal , number of allowed servers mappings for a volume limited with 5. This is much less than ESX cluster and Hyper-V clu...
about 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Add Direct Access Recovery (DAR) at the directory level for NDMP restores so TSM does not have to scan every backup tape.

See http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21223572 IBM needs to add support for Direct Access Recovery (DAR) at the directory level for NDMP restores. DAR support exists at the file level. The DAR would allow Tivoli Storage Manager serv...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

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