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IBM Storage Archive

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Please continue supporting the TS2900 in IBM Storage Archive v2.4.8 and later.

Supported tape libraries - IBM Documentation https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-archive-le/2.4.8?topic=planning-supported-tape-libraries IBM Storage Archive LE supports the following IBM® tape libraries: IBM Diamondback Tape Library (IBM LTO 9 an...
5 days ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Submitted

Error message to provide specific detail of problem

When Storage Archive is retrieving a file but the tapes where primary or any replica copies reside are offline the error message is non-descript and just says there is an error as opposed to error primary and replica files not available as tapes o...
25 days ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Submitted

When doing reclamation, recalls should go to other pool copy in 2nd library during reclamation

This helps reclamation to go much quicker, not being paused by recalls on the same tape!
2 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Under review

Avoid to damage good tape media by bad drive

In Baidu hyper scale tape storage system, we met many cases that good tape cartridges is marked to bad status because of bad drive. For example, drive1 is bad, Archive EE still uses it to write or read data and get the error result, Archive EE wil...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Future consideration

Request for a tape drive down function in the Storage Archive EE

Request for a tape drive down function in the Storage Archive EE to prevent malfunction at the tape drive level when a drive failure is detected.
12 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Not under consideration

REST consistency and authentication improvements

The rest api is currently not consistent with the eeadm cli. This makes it difficult to automate things that rely on information the cli can output but the rest api doesn't. A few examples: 1. tasks https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-archive-ee/1...
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Under review

Get SOBAR supported for Spectrum Archive Disaster Recovery

We use SOBAR to backup metadata of all data that is going to Storage Archive. This is the only way to be able to recover data that was migrated toStorage Archive and recover this data when a disaster happens. In our use case we have an active arch...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Under review

Spectrum Archive batch selective_recall tasks should utilize duplicate tapes if primary copy is on invalid tape

Our archive system is set to write files to two tape pools for redundancy (and offsiting). Sometimes we will have a recall where tape 1 copy (set a) is on a tape that needs to go thru validation or has some other reason to not be considered valid....
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Is a defect

Shorten wait time of LEADM/EEADM Operation while LTO-9 Optimization

Software: Storage Archive LE/EE Condition: when user run format new LTO-9 media, this kicks LTO-9 media optimization, and user use IE slot to import media to Library while optimization. Problem: User must wait LEADM/EEADM operation, such as "show ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Archive 2 Not under consideration

Add metadata entry to a file to be able to know when it was last recalled

This would make ik possible to leave a file premigrated for a defined time period.
7 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Future consideration