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Improve DS8000 Host Adapter architecture to provide greater performance over larger fiber distance (RTT 50ms)

It has been found that over a fiber distance of 50ms RTT, the 32G Host Adapter provides a maximum throughput of 500 MB/s if 1 PPRC port is utilized on the HA. The PPRC port was connected to a 32G port on the Director which in turn had a 128G tunne...
over 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

Move data from tapes to container storage pools

There should be a way for people who want to abandon tapes to move their existing data to disk, in most recent format - container storage pools. As there is feature introduced with 7.1.6 to convert file based legacy storage pools to new container ...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

ISP4VE- Additional Tagging documentation for powershell

In the user´s guide there is no example or explanation how to set tags via powershell. It´s mentioned that for example the quiescing paramter can be set manual via powershell but not how...

Multiple vcenter's configured in TSM Data Protection for VMWare

We use TSM VMWare Data protection for backing up our vms regularly. We are currently have to allocate additional servers in order to point to each vcenter. Enabling the software to be configured for multiple vcenters would be helpful.

Allow for parallel-stream restores, using DP for SAP HANA

In http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSZHVN_7.1.3/erp.hana/c_dperp_saphana_planperf.html, the manual states that parallel-session BACKUP and RESTORE is possible in DP for SAP HANA 7.1.3. That is not the case, as discovered in named PMR. B...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 2 Delivered

Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments: Multiple VMware webclient plug-in registrations in one VCenter server

Customer would like to have the possibility of multiple TSM4VE plug-in registrations on the same vCenter server. In case customers are using more than one Spectrum Protect TDP configurations within one VSphere environment, multiple DP GUI connecti...

Increase password length for LDAP users to 50+ (currently 30)

When using LDAP as a remote authentication method, only users with a password length of <= 30 can login. If a password is longer, the login does not work.
about 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Delivered

Bug in Spectrum Protect - LDAP timout issues stop the SP server starting

When starting the Spectrum Protect/TSM server it goes through the startup procedures.Part of this startup checks the LDAP connections.If the LDAP connection times out, then the SP server fails to start.The RFE is that if the LDAP fails then the SP...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

user/role based permission control in Spectrum Scale

So far, in Spectrum Scale, all user management is done by OS, e.g. by /etc/passwd, by AD or LDAP. However, for administration, there is only one role: the user root or the common user with sudo permission. No matter it's the user root, or it's the...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Windows 2022 Support - Spectrum Protect Client, VE (TVE), SVC

Need support for Windows 2022 as it relates to: 1. Spectrum Protect Client2. VE (TVE)3. SVC
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered