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TSM for DB support on Oracle Linux systems

Wonder if IBM can extend their support for Linux OS to other flavor than Red Hat and Suse especially Oracle Linux. Thanks.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

user-defined Encryption Standard (like China national encryption )support

Many customers in China, for example the large banks and state-owned enterprise, have the need for using their own encryption method to process/transfer their data. China also has the China National Data Encryption Standard which is mandatory to c...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Storwize SDS installation on SoftLayer hardware

To ensure that the Storwize SDS solution can be run and supported on the hardware options (or key subset) that is currently defined in the SoftLayer server catalog (https://store.softlayer.com/configure).
almost 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

TSM Supoort for NDMP Backup of NetAPP cDOT Running SVM-SCOPED

We have a client that has deployed new NetApp cDOT cluster and wants to run in SVM-SCOPED mode but can not because TSM NDMP backups do not support cDOT Cluster Aware Backups in SVM-SCOPED only NODE-SCOPED.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Cache limit

Hello developers,we have bank customer with security requirements for DMZ servers. During test of DOS attack from DMZ on storage via lun assigned to DMZ servers we found that cache is overcommited during the attack. Problem is in cache partitionin...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

Control storwize via san

Hello Developers,we have some problems with customer which complaining that storage can't be handled/managed via san. It means that expect soemthing as Gatekeepers in EMC or HORM instance in Htachi, which all control own luns or Remote copy via sa...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Burst option for I/O throttling

Hello developers,we have some problems with implementation security standard in our bank customer. He requested in contract that we have to implement protection against hackers also on storage level. He found that he can do DOS attack agains Storw...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Monitoring agent doesn't have cluster configuration support.

Usually, TSM is installed into cluster configuration. But monitoring agent doesn't support it. All of standart Tivoli Monitoring agents have this opportunity, but not SK agent.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Not under consideration

schedlogretention option is only applied at process startup

It is not recommended to restart the dsmcad process on a regular basis.We use the schedlogretention option is required to allow archiving of the dsmsched.log files, but this means that the dsmwebcl.log files continue growing for the life of the ds...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

ARP Request for SVC at Daimler

ARP Request for SVC at Daimler. With this new feature we will be able to ensure high-availability and product stability in Daimler's Storage environment.
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Not under consideration

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