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inode number limit

Need to restrict the inode number to be lower than 2^32 . If its greater than that, 32 bit applications are failing complaining file not found.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Extend 512 Character Filter limit in TSM for VE Backups

The filter limit of 512 Characters is too limiting. In a large environment this limit causes admins to create multiple schedules to accomplish what one schedule should be able to do. Having these multiple schedules causes additional problems such ...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Exclude SRM placeholders in TSM for VE backups

There are no viable options to exclude SRM placeholders from TSM for VE backups. TSM for VE should either identify or filter out SRM placeholders from showing in the backup selection view.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

SPS Support for A9000 Multisite Configuration

Client is using a multi-site configuration in their A9000's where they are hyperswapped in prod and async replicating to DR. They need support for this configuration within Spectrum Protect Snapshot for snapshot management.
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

Adding Exclude statement for Hyper-V backups

We do not find Exclude statement for hyper-v backups.Customer is not able to exclude particular VM from backup.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

tsm and ilmt agent for ubuntu ppc64le

We are starting using free linux distros like ubuntu to provide several services to our customers. We run ubuntu on ibm i power hardware.It would be nice to use also tsm for backup on this machines and also have subcapicity support on ubuntu os. s...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 1 Not under consideration

version 7.1 32bit linux tsm client

We have several 32 bit linux systems that have applications that prevent OS upgrades. As new security vulnerabilities are found and updated, we have caused the TSM client to stop working, luckily we were able to upgrade tsm to the 6.2.5.4 client c...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

ICO managed TSM activities

Centralized management of TSM activities through TSM server instead of direct connection from ICO to the End-Point. This would enable TSM Server acting as automation tool for backup related activitites such as triggering of backups , snapshots, re...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Integrate AD for user authentication in ESS

Currently the Storage Team uses root to log into the ESS I/O nodes and EMS but it would be nice to set them to integrate with Active Directory for non-root users. We assume other customers use AD for authentication on their EMS and I/O nodes.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Not under consideration

TSM backup client fails to restore directories that were "over quota" when the backup was performed

Novell NSS file system (on a SLES based server) has a feature called "directory quota". It is possible to set such a quota on a directory, such that the quota is lower than the amount of data currently stored within the directory. TSM will backup ...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

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