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DMAPI session info truncated on non-session nodes

observed on Spectrum Scale 5.1.0 + 5.1.5 invoking dm_query_session on the session node returns session info as expected. However, invoking the same call on non-session nodes returns the first 8 bytes of session info only, followed by the NULL cha...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

DMAPI dm_getall_disp returns unexpected dispositions

observed on Spectrum Scale 5.1.0 + 5.1.5 For the set of sessions and dispositions: M1 - session which has called dm_set_disp on the global handle to receive mount events F1 - session which has called dm_set_disp on an fs (fs1) during a mount event...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

add scsi addressing in INCLUDE.VMDISK parameter

Description of the problem:Our policy should be to make only an image VMbackup with TSM for VE of only the OS-disk. Making VMbackups of the data-disks with TSM for VE should not be allowed.For 91% of the VM's (+/-4200 VM's) , the OS disk with SCSI...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Exchange 2013 support with TSM

Target date to support Exchange 2013 with TSM for Mail
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Planned for future release

Inckude/exclude/wildcards/regex

Like to use wildcards/regex and/or include/exclude statements whenn selecting:* datacentre* hostclusters* hosts* vm's* storge
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Allow clusters in TS7700 grid to have a local NTP source

Allow Each VTS within a TS7700 cluster to source it's time independently to avoid call -homes when their are WAN issues.
over 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Future consideration

change owner ID of archived objects, in GUI it is not possible to see the archived data if owner id not exist anymore

change owner ID of archived objects.In GUI it is not possible to see the archived data if the owner id does not exist anymore. we were advised that we should open an RFE for this: Answer from IBM: There is not a way to change OWNER after the objec...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

one way password implementation on tsm server

During a security audit we found some probleme with the implementation of password allgorithm in TSM. It is recommended to immplement a one way password encryption algorithm, at least for the TSM server accounts (Admins, server to server, lan free...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum protect support for Huawei cloud

Currently in IBM reference, spectrum protect only support the following list of cloud object storage https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg22000915.There are huawei cloud customer that wanted to see that they want to use spectrum prote...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Add functionality to Data Protection For Exchange to allow restore of soft deleted mailboxes

System: Data Protection For Exchange Actor: User needing to recover soft deleted mailboxes.Data protection is a commonly used product that provides backup/restore for Exchange environments. Description: We use Data Protection For Exchange to prote...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Not under consideration