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More filter options for the QUERY ACTLOG command

The ACTLOG table/view contains around 14 fields and the majority of these have corresponding options which can be used to filter the output of QUERY ACTLOG. For example MSGNO=, NODENAME=, SESSNUM=. However the list of fields that can be used as fi...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

improvement for 'Generate backupset' to support SQL and Exchange filespaces

Backupsets are a great way to handle data to be stored for long term retention. Lots of TSM customers use backupsets for that purpose. Alas it's not possible to generate a backupset for filespaces containing data from TDP backups such as SQL and E...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

Syslog encryption request for the IBM XIV arrays.

Syslog Encryption request for the IBM XIV arrays. Secure log shipping for XIV arrays
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

API to return changed blocks since last backup

While Spectrum Scale synergy with Spectrum Protect (TSM) is great and completely adapted to the backup of a file system that is hosting a very large number of files (basically used as a file server) that are added every day and some of them being ...
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Tools or self tune mechanisms for troubleshooting

Customers would like to have tools that would allow them to analyze our diagnostic information so they could more quickly determine what was wrong with the system and try to correct it (i.e. Self tune based on the latency and throughput of the net...
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Expand mmrsync to accept filelist

mmrsync accepts the filenames only as parameters. Extend it to also accept a filename containing a list of files to sync.
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Add option to backup VM with Shared Virtual Hard Disks.

With the current release of IBM Spectrum Protect for Hyper-V, VM's with Shared virtual disks cannot be backed-up (error message: ANS2552E Backup of a virtual machine that has a shared virtual hard disk is not supported.). Add an option similar lik...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

SVC GUI enhancement request

In the SVC GUI - when viewing hosts:The host mappings column shows a no or yes and disk symbol. Suggested change:Also display the number of volumes that are lunmasked.
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

check computability of Line tape version 3 .0.60 VS Kernel 3.10.0-1160.25.1.el7.x86_64 , 3.10.0-1160.el7.x86_64 OS RHEL 7.9

Hi Team as advised by PFE Ref to case TS011516098 to open RPQ Ref to old case TS006661327 Devlopment and PFE advised to upgrade from line tape 3.0.56-1.x86_64 to line tape version 3.0.60 in the coming PMN to overcome issue of CPU hang /TSM server ...
about 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

SPP Enhanced VMs view. Colomns sorting.

Enhanced the view of the VMs. Sorting by columns. Adding colums in the view so we can see options selected per VMS. Options per VMs in a reports also.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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