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Ignore/Skip Windows RC Codes during Backup

As you can see in the PMR we got a big problem with some files on a netapp filer. This files were created by randomly by netapp filer. Problem is that these files have no owner, or other NTFS securitys so an windows RC appears if the BA Client try...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Is a defect

when the file name is longer then 255 character it does not get copied to the SMB share, in the future version we would like to see a error message, stating the file name is too long "

when a file is not getting copied, end user dont have any clue that file has not been copied from the windows. An error message would tell them to make the file name shorter.
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Do not register mount proxy nodes in configuration wizard

After installation, the Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments GUI needs to be configured. URL: https://localhost:9081/TsmVMwareUI/ If the GUI is called for the first time, the Configuration Wizard automatically starts. At the definition of the...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Provision of vdisk protection time for unmap and delete

Currently there is a parameter "vdisk_protection_time" is available to configure on SVC to avoid any unforeseen deletions by an error. We need to have a different parameter for unmap of volume and a similar parameter for protecting against deletio...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

TPC-R integration with VMware SRA for SRM

I'm submitting on behalf of a customer who's using TPC-R to manage replication between multiple Storwize/SVC systems and supporting IBM i, AIX, Windows and VMware hosts. For VMware, they're using Site Recovery Manager (SRM) to automate failover. W...
over 9 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

CSM Topology Details Export to Not Add Spaces to CG/Session ID

Currently when we export the CSM Topology Details if there are Sessions/CG's which are a single character long, the CSV export will export those like ' 7' instead of just as 7 which means if we are using the data in another spreadsheet, we have to...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 4 Not under consideration

The Protection summary screen shouldn't show the replica VMs

Spectrum Protect Plus "Protection Summary" screen shows our replica machines that replicated with Recover Point.This is a misleading situation. Both our machine count and the number of machines that are not backed up seem wrong.It needs to be fixed.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

Windows 10 support

Please let us know when there is a TSM Windows client available to support Windows 10 operating system.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 1 Not under consideration

Enable REST via commandline

REST API has to be enabled using Open Webbrowser, Login, and Check the "Enable REST" Checkbox.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Option to display session and process numbers without commas

Displaying sessions (q sess) or processes (q pro) without commas will allow an administrator to cut/paste session/process numbers into other commands (can sess xxxxx) quickly and accurately . this will eliminate the need to display and manually in...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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