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TS7700 should have different grid ports for Deferred work vs. sync & remote mounts

We have a multiple site TS7700 configuration with multiple grids in each location. The majority of our cross site workload is deferred. However, we have some critical workloads that we need to sync across the distance. An example of this is the HS...
over 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Store backup CRs with Application

CRs should be stored with the application namespace so they are versioned with application and backed up as part of the namespace backup. Storing the backup CRs with the Backup namespace means restore is limited to clusters that are manage by the ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

File-level restore option in TSM4VE with Cloud - Container Storage Pool

Ref : PMR 79682,070,724As per technote http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21659833 when using combination of TSM4VE and cloud container storage pool , the option of file level restore is not there.File level restore always needed , b...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 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

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 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Export performance or support data capability for a group of devices

A SI user should be able to collect support data for a group of devices that are configured under a group.
about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

backup hyper-v 2012 the backup is work but we have error 12

We have backup server with windows 2012r2 and we install IBM SPECTRUM PROTECT SERVER 8.1.6 we have hyper-v 2012 r2 with 12 hosts with cluster , we install ibm spectrum protect for hyper-v 8.1.6 i want to backup only two vritual machines with linux...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

Gui Enhancements - additional reporting fields

5. Would like the GUI to include the following enhancements: a. Host Tab - Need the ability to quickly identify per host the number of io groups in use, which io groups are in use, and the volume counts for that host in each io group with option t...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Well-known tcp ports are run out by TIME_WAIT state if recalls are distributed to cluster nodes

Product: IBM Spectrum Protect for Space ManagementActor: User needs improvement of TCP port usage The product is bundled in our product IBM Spectrum Archive Enterprise Edition for space management of IBM Spectrum Scale. Description: In multi-nodes...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 3 Future consideration

SVC - Ability to downgrade Code level or Revert to previous code level

During the upgrade process at the end there is a final step to commit to system. Would like an enhanced feature that allows for the previously installed code level to be maintained and provide an option to role the code back should issues be encou...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration