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Create backupset from directory container stgpool

Directory containers give much better performance compared to the "old" version of dedup, but it makes it impossible to create Backupsets (and export) which several of my customers are using to get an annual backup offsite
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Have CSM alert when ADMIN password expires

Today when ADMIN password expires on the DS8K (typically after the default of 90 days), CSM will stop working and you cannot directly see what is the issue. It is reported in CSM as connection error. I suggest we get a notification - maybe a few d...
over 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Not under consideration

Request to add "all" option to put filesystem in maintenance mode

In order to shutdown/startup gpfs gracefully, it is recommended to put filesystem in maintenance mode using "mmchfs --maintenance-mode" cmd before shutdown. However, this command allow only one filesystem at a time. So if the customer has many fil...
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

TSM B/A Client "archive vm" equivalent of "backup vm"

In the current TSM b/a client for windows (with VMware tools), there is a "backup vm" command that will perform full image or file level backups for VM guests. There is no option to perform an archive (file level or image) We need the ability to a...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Virtualize/SVC support for Dell EMC VPLEX backend

Customer plans to use IBM SVC as a hub for storages, provided by other vendors, including competitors. Quite a few of the storages are hidden behind VPLEX virtualization and thus can not be virtualized by SVC/Storwize family. It limits the mobilit...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

CBR3750I message issued during service prep mode, because of service prep mode

When a TS7700 cluster is put in service prep mode for maintenance (RCL, for example), it ignores that it is in service prep mode and continues to issue CBR3750I message as if it was not. Some of those CBR messages generate false positive ticket an...
5 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

NFS Export: Show connected clients

Tool that will list the clients that are connected to *a particular NFS (CES) export*
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Backup of encrypted vSphere 6.5 environments

Currently there is no support for backups of encrypted vSphere 6.5 environments with TSM/ISP4VE (which is stated in the documentation). Due to the fact that some customers require encryption for their VMware environments, support for the new (V6.5...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

CentOs as a supported OS for TDP for VE datamover

Having RHEL 7 as supported Environment, and having CentOS 7 as supported in Spectrum Protect, it is highly appreciated to enhance support for running TDPVMware datamover and mountproxy in CentOS as well.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Client Support for SnapDiff API v2

The possibility of using of FlexGroup volume is very necessary for us as supercomputing centre. First by using of FlexGroup volume is possible excite the 100TB boundary of other kinds of NetApp volumes.Working backup with SP Client of such volumes...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

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