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IBM Spectrum Protect Client Encryption with IBM Spectrum Scale

Spectrum Protect backup encryption using include.Encrypt for Spectrum Scale client is not working due to unrecognized format "Include Encrypt". Error:mmbackup does not recognize this include rule format: Include Encrypt. The tsbackup33 perl script...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Enable customer provided SSL certificate in OC

Many compagnies don't allow self signed certificate anymore. Operation Center doesn't offer a solution to use CA signed certificate. It would be really usefull to allow customer to set it up.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

RPO Reporting Enhancement in Tape Gui

Today in the 7700 Tape GUI.. The current display of the COPY QUEUE contains a combined sum of ALL of the "deferred" and "Family" virtual volumes queued up --- that need to be copied. My customer "Humana" would very much like: 1. Ability to see the...
over 8 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Not under consideration

ESS GL6s RG failover take more than 5 minutes

When customer does final ESS GL6s acceptance test, they power off one of ESS I/O node, find that RG failover take more than 5 minutes which is longer than expected.Customer want to know what's the major bottle neck and enhance the whole RG failove...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Is a defect

StorM performance evalution problem

StorM evaluates performance better than the actual machine.StorM evaluates at 300,000 IOPS or more/1 msec or less under the following conditions. The bottleneck is CPU Utilization.FS7200, 4.8TB FCM x 13, DRAID6, Read:Write=99%:1%, Block size=6KiB,...
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum for VE - Integration VMWare - Enhanced Linked Mode.

VMWare Vcenter do not transmit the information about TSM for VE Configuration for each VCenter
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect for Ubuntu Server for IBM Z and LinuxONE

Since more about 3 years now I'm fighting to get support from IBM for an Enterprise Backup solution (TSM / Spectrum Protect) for Ubuntu Server for IBM Z and LinuxONE.This already harmed IBMs and Canonical's business, since customers asked already ...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 1 Future consideration

Tape errors recorded only in Volumes table and not Libvolumes table

TSM only records read and write errors in the volumes table, which is reset every time a volume is returned to scratch.It would be advantageous for errors to also be recorded against the library volumes entry, which would not be reset when volumes...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TCP/IP Transmission Statistics

I received a request that TDMF show in performance reporting at a Session, and optionally at a Volume level, the gross amount of data bytes to send to remote sites over TCP/IP and the accumulated number of bytes processed. Including Percent Comple...
about 4 years ago in TDMF z/OS 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect PLUS support RedHat v5.9

Important Telco company (Vodefaone) need to support RedHat v5.9 with Spectrum Protect PLUS.They have some internal applications and it's impossible to upgrade RH version and oython 2.4.The objective it's to protect (with SPP) Oracle 10g.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

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