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TSM4VE UI does not support restore VMs multiple

the current TSM4VE Web UI or plugin does not support the parallel / multiple restore of VMs at a time. We are selected 4 VM's for the restoration only one process is started with VM restoration. After completing the 1st VM restoration 2nd VM proce...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Display information about encryption technology used in GUI & CLI encryption command

Display information about encryption technology used in GUI & in CLI encryption command - which will help customer's cybersecurity team - requested by customer. Check this thread in slack # specv-sme-se = https://ibm-systems-storage.slack.com/...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Ability to backup TOC objects to a Container pool.

There is an immediate need for the feature enhancement in Spectrum Protect to have the ability to backup TOCs to a Container pool besides current ability for backup server to collect and store file-level information in a table of contents (TOC) wh...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Migrate Container pool in same TSM server

Migrate data between Container pools in same TSM server is not possible at the moment, The only way to do this is to set up a node replication to another tsm server.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Online update of Spectrum Scale Clients

I would like to have the ability to update spectrum scale releases on clients online without shuting down the gpfs on each client. So the new feature should contain an "on the fly" replacement of the kernel module during usage of the gpfs filesyst...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Storwize tape target

Ability to enable tape target mode on Storwize.Today, VTL are very common and IBM has discontinued its Protectier solution. Now that Storwize can do compression and deduplication, we could technically add tape target mode code on Storwize and enab...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Oracle RAC One Node with Spectrum Protect Plus

We need a protection with a Oracle RAC One Node configuration with 2 servers nodes and differents db instances in the both nodes. In the Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.x fail applications inventory with a Oracle RAC One Node configuration.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Virtualize FlashCopy bitmap with Spectrum Copy Data Management

When using Spectrum Virtualize in conjunction with IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management, if the flashcopy bitmap capacity fills, the Spectrum Virtualize instance will warmstart a node without warning. Spectrum Copy Data Management orchestrates the sc...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Problem with the limit of 256 sessions in one consistency group

My customer PSA manages the replications between his DS8886 with CSM.For production reasons, he defined one and only one a consistency group with a lot of sessions.In the documents it is mentioned that there is a limit to 256 sessions in one consi...
about 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 3 Not under consideration

Add a dictionary search

We can already use regex to inspect documents and add tags to them. But is there a more convenient way to add whole dictionaries? I would like to add the following functionality: We define a dictionary called "Hamburg" with hundreds or possibly th...
over 2 years ago in Storage Discover 2 Not under consideration