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Missing Error messages when silent installation of Spectrum Protect for VE Recovery Agent fails

After installing successful the datamover in silent mode with this command: spinstall.exe ISFeatureInstall=Client,TSM4VE /silent ComponentsToInstallBa=BackupArchiveGUI,BackupArchiveWeb,Api64Runtime ComponentsToInstallVe=LAP,TSMLicence,documents SU...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect API for DB2 does not allow to set 'set protect size' info. Hence OC does not count it for License check

Nodes being used for DB2 database backup using TSM client API are not reporting to front end capacity usage (in Operation Center). Hence unable to utilize OC for license calculation. Refer PMR Numbers TS001718996 and TS002594393.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Need FS9200 to support SCSI PR Read Full Status at SPC-3 Standard

Client wishes to implement FS9200 with RHEL HA Clustering. For success they need FS9200 to support Read Full Status Service action (03h) and perhaps yet unknown other functionality that comes with SPC-3.
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

Implement S3 management interface in GPFS GUI

S3 object management interface is not available in current version of GPFS GUI. Only available for SWIFT. We need this interface so that customer who want to use S3 API can manage the object easily.The customer who want to use S3 API have to use c...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Finding WWPNs for spare nodes in SpecVirt products is difficult

The main management interfaces for the Spectrum Virtualize family makes it difficult (CLI) to impossible (GUI) to find the WWPNs for spare nodes. On the CLI, the sainfo lsservicestatus command can be used to find the WWPNs on spare nodes, but addi...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

Automate Cache DDM reporting information

Morgan Stanley is requesting Cache DDM information beyond what we implemented in the TS7700 for the 8.50 release. From the Download System Summary ICON you can retrieve a csv file which contains a summary of the code levels, vtd_execs installed,.....
over 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

TS4500 name tape drives

It would be nice to have the ability to label each drive in the TS4500 GUI with a name that could be shown/sorted in the "Drives" screen.
about 6 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 4 Not under consideration

enhancements to allocation manager to help alleviate region request/relinquish thrashing

When meta regions are small and fragmented and the node count is large a situation can occur in which clients start thrashing the allocation manager requesting and relinquishing meta regions. In our environment this seems to occur most often when ...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

SpecVirt location field doesn't allow non-alphanumeric chars

The "location" field in Spec Virt products doesn't allow for non-alphanumeric chars.
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Is a defect

SPP permits to install aditional software as monitoring.

Customer needs to install a monitoring software in the SPP and Vsnap Appliances. This is an important requirement to move to production this environment.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

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