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Introduce Timeout in DSMCAD

By default, dsmcad doesn't have any time out value. Post Rapid Force NVA 6.6.128 upgrade, the connection of NVA Scan is not closing as expected. Post Scan of TSM Client on dynamic or dedicated dsmcad port, the connection stays as active, dsmcad se...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Delivered

Daylight savings time not reflected in Performance Statistic files

Each performance statistic file contains its timestamp formatted in local time format according to the timezone set via “settimezone”.In countries with active daylight savings time, in the timeframe when clocks are reverted backwards one hour, you...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

ANS1360I message only in clientlog, but not in Servers actlog

following message in dsmsched.log: 11/23/2011 21:02:26 Normal File--> 47,610 \\server1\c$\xxx\file_name.pdfANS1360I Compressed Data Grew It is not possible to monitor this error automatically, because its only in clients error log. also it is a...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

We have a customer who wants backup up Exchange-2013.

HiI am writing to you because the support has recommended it to me.We have a customer who wants backup up Exchange-2013.Unfortunately, I can understand that there is no BA/TDP clients to the version yetCan you then tell me if it in any way is poss...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Delivered

Volume in FF20 category

This RFE is to request a new message that will be sent from TS7700 to z/OS.It intends to alert the host about a logical volume damaged as soon as the TS7700 microcode detects the situation and insert the logical volume in FF20 category. For exampl...
almost 9 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Delivered

cloud storage support for HCP with TSM

Please consider adding support for Hitachi HCP cloud storage on TSM server 7.x going forward.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Delivered

Support for Cleversafe Locked Vault feature to provide retention conpliance

We have opportunities with National records and Archives Oman for a 100PB archive solution and with Ahli United Bank in Kuwait for a 1PB archive solution in both cases IBM's object storage Cleversafe is being proposed and we would like to include ...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Delivered

TDPO Client Sun Solaris 11 x86

We need a new Version of TDPO Client for Sun Solaris 11 x86.Our TSM client instances are on version 6.3.3.100
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 4 Delivered

Support for multiple AD services on one GPFS/Scale cluster

Allowing support for more than one Active Directory service per GPFS cluster would be extremely helpful in those situations where we are serving customers who are trying to create a shared storage repository for multiple sub-groups (departments, r...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

[BDA]support data locality in a shared-storage environment

This RFE is requesting that GPFS be modified to support data locality in a shared storage environment by modifying the FPO featureset to support multiple NSD servers per NSD. This is requisite for leveraging data locality in a scale-out environmen...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

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