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Enhance the monitoring and reporting the internal RAID card's degradation

5148-22L's internal RAID card's degradation caused severe performance impact. However, its degradation was not monitored by HW&SW. Therefore, the user could not found this HW problem.ESS should be enhanced as monitoring the card and reporting ...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Planned for future release

Passwordless db2 upgrade

During IBM SP Server upgrade, from the version 8.1.11.0 DB2 SP instance credentials has to be validated due to DB2 major update.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Support newer browsers (IE11/Edge, for example) in TSM Monitoring

Monitoring/Reporting for Spectrum Protect must be updated to allow browsers beyond IE8 and IE9 for login to JazzSM to manage Cognos Reporting. Those browsers are the only officially supported by IBM, but are no longer supported by Microsoft. IE11/...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Not under consideration

Proxy server support for connecting to AWS S3 (cloud container storage pool)

Support for proxy connections when defining cloud storage pools in Spectrum protect server
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

Cloud pool with full local cache and no network connectivity should report out of storage space, or storage access error

When the local stgpooldirs are full for a cloud pool which has an unreachable cloud provider, attempts to write into that pool should fail, rather than hang.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Is a defect

Hung Disk to Cloud transfers should time out

When network connectivity to Azure is lost, Disk to Cloud transfer processes can hang. This is due to a limitation in Azure's OkHttp java API. SP should poll externally for hung sockets and time out, kill, or otherwise not hang pool operations. Si...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Is a defect

Broadcast a warning message when the active logical volumes are near the logical volume license

In the current design, there is no alert setting that will broadcast a warning message when the active logical volumes managed is near the logical volume license. Many customers rely on automation to get an alert from any subsystem in their enviro...
about 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Future consideration

TDP for VE: execution of scheduled backups can not be viewed, but manual executions can

TSM for VE admin needs all funcionality in his workspace, the TDP for VE GUI , therefore visibility of scheduled backups required even though actually not executed by TDP for VE;
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Server migration processing should be able to use more than 1 process with data from only 1 node in the primary disk pool

Server migration processing (from disk to tapes) should be able to use more than 1 process in order to use multiple tape drives in parallel emptying the disk pool despite data in the primary disk pool is from 1 node only.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Enable FCM to use thin-provisioned target volumes if source volumes are thin provisioned

Currently it is not possible to use thin-provisioned target volumes as COPY (only with NOCOPY) with FCM even if the source volumes are thin-provisioned. This means for us to loose a lot of space for target volumes. The functionality is implemented...
over 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 4 Planned for future release

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