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    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 4 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Not under consideration

    define clientaction - change of default values

    The define clientaction command, if executed without any parameters, starts an incremental backup on all nodes in all domains. This is potential risk because the administrator can make a mistake and press enter key before entering any parameters. ...
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 5 Not under consideration

    Change to TSM Client Code Deployment

    Currently the TSM Client Deployment package is coded to check for 2GB of free space on the c:\ drive of a Windows client node. If it is not available the TSM client code will fail to install. The current auto-deployment package for 64bit Windows i...
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

    Auto tuning in AFM of afmNumFlushThreads

    Our organisation are extremely heavy users of the AFM technology atop GPFS/SpectrumScale. We host thousands of AFM file-sets inside GPFS filesystems. The nature of the utilisation of each fileset is almost completely unique and individual. The pro...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

    Dissimilar policies for node replication

    When using node replication, it would be helpful to be able to specify dissimilar policies for local copies and remote copies.It should be easy to configure and maintain - also in large TSM environments, where ConfigMaster is being used for distri...
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 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 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

    You should be able to configure notification of user password expiration.

    A frequent problem I have is that the ESS GUI user accounts expire and I have to get them reset. It would be useful if you could set up e-mail notifications that an account is about to expire. My organization does this .... when my password is wit...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

    Enhanced admin security for ESS

    Administrative access to ESS (including but not limited to the WebUI) has a weak security model.
    about 5 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Planned for future release

    Node Replication available for NDMP storage pools

    Is it in the roadmap to include storage pools with format=NETAPPDUMP, CELERRADUMP or NDMPDUMP in Node Replication ?
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    BackupSet tape Migration

    We have backupsets created on 3592-JB tapes and we need to migrate these backupsets to 3592-JD tapes.We are in the process of discarding all JB tapes and TS1130 tape drive.We will have only TS1160 tape drives which can not read JB tapes.
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

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