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Replication job shows as error

SPP shows a replication job as a failure, but only because there was nothing to replicate not because of an actual error. Perhaps the error message type could be changed here so the job doesn't fail.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Migration from CPS

Provide capability for customers to move from legacy CPS hardware to fusion
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 2 Not under consideration

IBM CES Object: Long lasting Swift transfers fail if Keystone token expires

IBM CES Object: Long lasting Swift uploads fail if Keystone token expires during the transfer.This applies to big files which are segmented (by the user, or by the default configuration), and to recursive uploads of directory trees.
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

need to backup ndmp type=snapmirror to container storage pool

Almost all (avout 95%) the netapp backup in Ben -Gurion unuversity, based on ndmp backup with type=snapm.This is very large volume's, includ the volumes of exchange database's.We do backup to evry volume once a month, all the month we have daily s...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect 8.1.11 supports for RHEL 8.3

Spectrum Protect 8.1.11 don't support RHEL 8.3.We heard Spectrum Protect 8.1.13 will support RHEL 8.3 from STSC.My customer wants to use Spectrum Protect 8.1.11 with RHEL 8.3.We would like to support Spectrum Protect 8.1.11 for RHEL8.3.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Storing unknown tags returned by applications for review and addition after a policy is completed.

Currently, any tags you wish to extract using a deep-inspect policy must be defined in spectrum discover before you create the policy. In the development of an application for extracting technical metadata from a range of file types, we are met wi...
over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Not under consideration

Better estimation on tape capacity

At the moment TSM does not do any true estimation or ongoing estimation on the capacity of a tape.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Self cooling racks

We run into instances where the DC does not have adequate cooling. We can provide the customer with option of self cooling racks, such as - https://www.netrackindia.com/blog/self-contained-racks-with-cooling/ We ship the stacked racks to the custo...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 1 Not under consideration

Reduce ffdc ALL output size to always stay under 100GB

Disk space on the root filesystem in Spectrum Discover can be very limited, and when building support logs package for IBM support we need to ensure that the resulting log package is small enough to fit on disk, small enough to transfer off of the...
over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Not under consideration

TSM for VE: Eliminate ANS1711W warning message or change to informational.

Whenever the default backup mode is selected for a VMware VM backup (incremental forever, incremental) and a full backup has not been performed, a warning message is issued "ANS1711W Incremental backup selected for 'MLTUSAPV27', but a Full backup ...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

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