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snmp event testing functionality

One of my Expert care customers contacted me and specifically requested to submit a request for him to add the funcionality to be able to test snmp in future code releases. At the moment there is no such funcionality on FS7300 and they have to cre...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Allow V7000 monitoring using industry standard protocols

Allow monitoring of performance data using read-only credentials and industry standard tooling.
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Migration process should skip locked files

Under certain conditions, the TSM server will try to migrate volumes that are locked by client backup sessionsl and simply wait for the volume to free up. This happens on a long-running (slow) backdup, or when a session does not terminate properly...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

FICON support for SVC

Problem description: No ability to provision storage from SVC to MainframeCurrent workaround: None
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

FCM VMware: Provide ability to specify multiple values of MAX_VERSIONS for a group of datastores for XIV

We need to ability to customize MAX_VERSIONS for a group of datastores for XIV. We are limited to only one MAX_VERSIONS parm with XIV.
about 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration

No confidential information may be part of the storage snap transfered to support team.

Call Home SVC at level 7.6.1.5 The customer is a weapons company with very restrictive confidentiality rules. This company is requesting that, for Storage snaps transfers to support teams, no confidential information may be part of the transfer (l...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Restore Performance of an SQL Database using ISP4VE

When using Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environment with Application Consistent Backup for SQL Databases, the restore Performance for SQL Database is far to slow.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Cloud Support for Spectrum Archive

Today, Spectrum Archive supports local and remote tape copies. The ability to send a copy to a cloud, either onsite or offsite, would also be beneficial.
over 7 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 5 Not under consideration

TSM Clean Frequency enhancement

Please allow a terabyte option in addition to gigabytes for the clean frequency for tape drives.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Supporting more than 512 characters in the GUI of TDP4VE

You cannot use in the GUI scheduler of TDP4VE more than 512 characters to put VMClient in the backup
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

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