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GPFS+TSM+HSM: staging vs. migration priority

What we are looking for is a configuration based parameter what willbasically break out of the "transparency for the user" mode, and notperform any further recalling, period, if|when the file systemoccupancy is above a certain threshold (98%). We ...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 0 Not under consideration

SPP - Change Message "CTGGA2192" from Error to Warning

Change Message "CTGGA2192: No volumes were replicated because there were no new snapshots. Please ensure that the backup completed successfully and the frequency of the Replication is less than the backup frequency." from Error to Warning. If ther...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

The problem of ANE4007E in your case is because you try to backup CITRIX files with a Reparse Tag IO_REPARSE_TAG_CITRIX_PM (

We are not able to backup user profiles for windows server that belongs to citrix environement.Refer IBM case id for etailed information about case and let me kow if more information needed for thia case.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Support AES-Features of CPU

The encryption in TSM is handled by the GSKcrypt-library. Since GSKit 8.0 the library supports the hardware-encryption for several CPUs, like:- SPARC- Intel- PowerUsing VMWare 6.0 one can even use this CPU-feature in a VM. TSM Clients should be en...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Administraive user on Filer

for clustured-data ONTAP NetApp filers, the only capability that is required is ontaoapi with the admin role
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Audit library checkl=barcode should be possible even if tapes are mounted

Audit library checklabel=barcode should be possible without dismounting all tape-drives.
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

Link the volume name to the subsession on LSVOL command

Customer is scripting command in open environment with CSMSCLI.The environment is a GM environment with the use of sub-session as the customer wants a granularity at the VM level.He needs to find to whom session LUN(s) belongs to in order to creat...
over 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Allow signed certificates instead of only self-signed for TSM TDP VMWare GUI website

The certificate being used for the website is self-signed and give a error in browser and VMware Vsphere client
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Data segregation with filesets link

The customer has a fileset. The application used is SAP netweaver.It runs on the cluster with one same uid/gid. The physical users are connected to this application remotelly and there is no UID/GID specific to them. One of the SAP transaction per...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Intellectual disk drive updates

If the system has multiple types of disks and a user tries to upgrade all of them, some disks may fail to update. This causes the whole upgrade process to stop and leave all the remaining disks (even upgradable) at an older version. In this case a...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

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