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Spectrum Protect client using port 9081, same as BigFix

The new tsm client 8.1.7+ is using default port 9081 for file level restore operations via web.The problem is that is the same port as tsm4ve and the same port as bigfix. IBM should not release different products using the same default port. One o...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Centralized reporting for Tivoli FlashCopy Manager

We would like to request a centralized reporting facility for Tivoli FlashCopy Manager, specifically FlashCopy Manager for Exchange 2010 first, if possible (although all applications managed by FCM would benefit). This reporting facility would be ...
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

increase IBM Spectrum Protect transfer rates to SWIFT/S3 capable ObjectStore

Current data chunks aggregation rate between TSM's deduplication engine and HTTP PUTs is too low to take full advantage of huge bandwidth SWIFT ObjectStore can provide, especially when Erasure Coded data placements algorithm is used.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Not under consideration

LIN_Tape device driver support for RHEL RealTime Kernel

Customer is evaluating IBM Spectrum Protect and would like to have the ability to install/configure the IBM LIN_Tape-3.0.46-1.src.rpm (downloaded from IBM Fix Central) on the Real-time RHEL7.5 kernel. The customer is not able to successfully compi...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Allow globally to exclude a specific hard disk from an SLA backup job

Allow globally to exclude a specific hard disk from an SLA backup job, like the function to exclude complete VMs via the Policy Options or by using a specific VM tag.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

AFM Replication to Cloud on HCI Systems based on scale

support hybrid deployments for HCI systems based on Scale ECE
almost 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Not under consideration

Headline : require RPQ to be raised for new Host , storage (SVC 2145-DH8) combination as same is not present in SSIC

We want host OS, hba , fabric and storage micro code 8.3.1.5 to be listed in SSIC, currently its not present in SSIC , as a result we are not able to plan upgrade from 8.2.1.11 to 8.3.1.5 .
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

SPP: Multiple LDAP servers required

We are using SPP 10.1.13 for backup of VM machines of customers with some project manager requiring access and some customers (vm owners) to be able to start single file restore. Our customers requires to have more than one LDAP server authenticat...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Use transactional write model and issue periodic disk cache flushes

GPFS (at least on Linux) does not attempt to flush the cache of the block devices to which it is writing. It relies on O_DIRECT to bypass host write cache but this does not guarantee data has been flushed to stable media. This RFE requests that GP...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Enable REST API in Opscenter via Commandline not manually via Browser

Enabling REST API is only possible using a checkbox using a supported webbrowser. It might be helpful for automation issues to do this without manual intervention.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

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