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TSM and Guard Point Backup Process

System: IBM TSM BA ClientActor: TSM AdministratorNeed: Update TSM BA Client TSM BA Client is used to backup and restore critical business data on thousands of servers nightly. Update the TSM BA Client for all Unix Platforms to backup and restore G...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Allow no lock control option on specific protocol exports

Some workloads do not need ensuring lock and an offering if parallel access will be needed or not (specially for CIFS). So for some workloads CTDB would not necessarily be used on all exports
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Issue an alert for less physical capacity

This idea is related to SCSI-I-1160. "Auto stop of Write operation against oops" may be too difficult, so I'll submit another idea. The customer encountered oops (Out of Physical Space) on FlashSystem 900 AE3 under V7000. The customer request...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Message ANR0422W should be changed when an admin fails the connection.

Message ANR0422W should be changed when an admin fails the connection. This makes some reporting / alerting tools to believe that a backup may be configured incorrectly when it's clearly not the case.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Ability to change Cluster ID without an outage

As a future TS7700 feature, Michael Yuan at Navy Federal Credit Union would like to be able to change the cluster ID without an outage. He would like to put a new node into the cluster and migrate everything to it. Currently, he has to do a manual...
over 2 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

Add preview support to restore

Ability to run a restore in preview mode that outputs what would be restored if the restore was to be run with the given parameters. Ability to restore only those affected files into another location
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

dsmmigundelete command re-create stub files for individual files

When space management migrate file to TSM storage, a stub file created in place of the original file, in some case, user need to recover one or more stub files because it deleted by mistake, and if these file are not protect by B/A client, the onl...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 0 Not under consideration

Ignore small differnces in tape formats when selecting tapes for write

Tape selection criteria were modified in v1.3.3.0 to improve tape utilization: P1: The tape that is currently mounted in the selected drive.P2: Tapes with the least amount of capacity.P3: Barcode order: If there are multiple tapes that have the sa...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Not under consideration

qos throttle support -N remote-node

qos throttle support -N remote-node
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

SVC option to remove vdisk on schedule

Problem description: if vdisk deletions are requested, we always keep them an extra month ; this to prevent if a vdisk deletion was requested by mistake ; or to restore files from itCurrent workaround: we created some scripts to make this possible...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

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