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DS8K HMCs should recommend regular power recycles

DS8K should recommend regular maintenance procedures for HMC power cycles to prevent hangs. This could be yearly, bi-yearly, etc., as long as it was a time period sufficient to prevent hangs due to unforeseen circumstances. This would prevent HMCs...
almost 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

To develop a report that shows overall capacity consumed per user that adds up local and offline files and versions

Current quota management on Spectrum Scale only considers consumed space of local files. With the introduction of features such Transparent Cloud Tiering for COS, it is needed a control over the space users are consuming for both local and offline...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Enhance the Backup Archive Clients to enable restore of metadata, specifically permissions, without restoring the data

Primarily on UNIX/Linux operating systems it is a common human error to change filesystem permissions (on directories and files) incorrectly, too broadly and the changes can be difficult or even impossible to correct back to the original permissio...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Improve Function of TDP for Oracle to be a more effective MediaManager

When Oracle RMAN begins a restore it apparently asks the MediaManager for all the volumes that will be needed to restore all the 'pieces' of the backup. On a long-running restore, in the time between the restore starting and it getting to any spec...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center - Security granularity

IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center - Security granularity
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

FCM for VMware: Support for multiple vCenters

Today (v.4.1.2) FCM for VMware can be connected to one vCenter only. This implies that clients have to deploy one FCM for Vmware installation for each vCenter. This RFE is to support multiple vCenter with only one FCM for VMware installation.
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

TSM4VE Cloud Service Provider Mode

Because of all ransomware attacks we see more transformations from other backup vendors back to IBM Storage Protect for VE, but the issue with TSM4VE is that it demanding a System Account in the Storage Protect Server to be able to work, we have d...
12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Add ability to export data by management class using the export node command

I propose that the TSM export node command is enhanced so that specific management classes are targeted for extraction. This will enable administrators to extract specific data ( typically long term data ) and leave out all the unnecessary data. T...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Cross platform migration: Linux x86 to AIX

Allow TSM to restore its database from a Linux x86 server to an AIX server.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Add an option to remove configuration mode in TSM4VE

We user the TSM4VE GUI to restore VM and files. At login the configuration mode is checked by default. If the user forget to uncheck it, he enters in the configuration wizard. We are supposed to use the VMWARE Plugin to restore but we have two TSM...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

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