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Add functionality to Data Protection For Exchange to allow restore of soft deleted mailboxes

System: Data Protection For Exchange Actor: User needing to recover soft deleted mailboxes.Data protection is a commonly used product that provides backup/restore for Exchange environments. Description: We use Data Protection For Exchange to prote...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Not under consideration

Node replication failed and does not replicate all data if a communication error occurred on the source or target server

The node replication failed and does not replicate all data if a communication error occurred on the source or target replication server.Occasionally, node replication will complete with a FAILURE in spite of replicating all objects after having a...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Custom certificate for TSM-VE for VMware plugin

I would like to get an interface or at least a procedure (commands) to replace the builtin autogenerated certificate push in TSM-VE plugin for VMware. Actually, we need to manually install this autogenerated certificate on each new machine that co...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Enhance Installation Toolkit Support for Cluster with active usesudowrapper configuration

We are planing to Implement saveguard vault design with use of saveguard snapshots. One requirement here the cluster must use sudowrapper as a prerequisite to work and beeing secure.The ansible installationtoolkit has currently no support for sudo...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Change dafault on deployments

Reevaluate default settings for retention of events and how frequent you pull or generate them. Option set:Activity Log Retention: 120 Day(s) - keep actlog longer than 4 quarter time limit, 100 days bare minimum, old setting from a time when 1GB o...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Ops Center Reporting

similar to "To pull graphical representing reports from operation center (102024)". The canned "General Operations" report is very nice and useful. It would be nice if we could generate similar reports but there is no documentation on how to do that.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 0 Not under consideration

Storage Insights to include DS8 Hostconnect Column on HBA View

For the IBM DS8 systems, on the Related Resources > Hosts > HBAs view, there are columns for name/status/type/WWPN/IQN/Associated Drives, but the column that would be most helpful is to list the associated host that the HBA login is related to.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Allow clusters in TS7700 grid to have a local NTP source

Allow Each VTS within a TS7700 cluster to source it's time independently to avoid call -homes when their are WAN issues.
almost 6 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Future consideration

Flashcopy Offload Optimization of db2_all command

Offload apparently waiting for several minutes.We saw issues during our offload testing with failing db2inidb commands when the log directories were not there. That is why we created the piece of code to create the log directories. Since for multi...
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

TS4500 mini PC placement

I had the opportunity to watch the SSRs working on Call Home problem with the TS4500. I would like to suggest an engineering change on the IMC min PC physical placement for consideration. The IMC mini PC is placed at the bottom corner of the end f...
almost 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Not under consideration

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