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TSM client Web GUI in TSM vwersion 8.1.4

TSM client Web GUI availability in TSM server version 8.1.4.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Not under consideration

Improvement in Data connections direct link UI

In the Spectrum Discover web interface under "main menu" -> "Data Connections" -> "Connections" a direct link from a connections name to the corresponding scan history would be very useful. At the moment it is very cumbersome to find: 1. A c...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Not under consideration

Limitation in the connmgr pod in OpenShift

We discussed a limitation in the connmgr pod in OpenShift with Joseph Dain in Hamburg. Due to the cgroup settings in OpenShift a pod can only have 1024 pids. Since every scan creates ~100 or more threads we reach this threshold soon causing the wh...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Not under consideration

Connect TS7700 to an AWS S3 bucket with an IAM Role

Our customer wants to be able to connect their TS7700 to an AWS S3 Bucket using an IAM Role without the need of the access key and the secret key.
12 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Not under consideration

Add ability to export data by management class using the export node command

I propose that the TSM export node command is enhanced so that specific management classes are targeted for extraction. This will enable administrators to extract specific data ( typically long term data ) and leave out all the unnecessary data. T...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

RFE: Chargeback reporting in SPP

Request from State of Arkansas for chargeback reporting based on the amount of data backed up in SPP per VM. (Not the amount of data stored on the vSnap server, after dedup compression - only amount of data backed up during backup job.)
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

FCM for VMware: Support for multiple vCenters

Today (v.4.1.2) FCM for VMware can be connected to one vCenter only. This implies that clients have to deploy one FCM for Vmware installation for each vCenter. This RFE is to support multiple vCenter with only one FCM for VMware installation.
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

PDU Power Cord for 92F too short for CMA

The two 2.8m PDU power cords for the 92F high density expansion are too short for the cable management arm it is supplied with. The power cords avialable for the 92F in econfig should be longer to allow the cable management arm to be extended, con...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Remove distinction between private and public IP address ranges

Remove the distinction between processing for private IP address ranges 10.0.0.0, 192.168.0.0 and the other one and public IP address ranges. Process the private subnet ranges the same way public IP address ranges are processed. Remove the undocum...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Metadata tags cannot be added/associated to Filespaces in Spectrum Protect

Metadata tags cannot be added/associated to Filespaces in Spectrum Protect
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

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