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WORM directive for Directory Container Pool with Spectrum Scale immutable fileset

Specify WORM at Spectrum Protect level when writing to a Directory container pool when using Spectrum Scale immutability function on the fileset so Backups can be compliant with a series of security needs.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Operations Center alerting modification

Configure alerting only on the hub server. The hub server should be the monitoring instance which is configured to send emails to administrators defined on hub server. The configuration wizard only shows the admin id's of the hub server. This curr...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

TSM VE 6.4 support double-byte VM host name

In case of double-byte like Japanese VM host name, VMware off-host backups using vStorage for Data Protection API was stop backup as error. Could you fix this limitation of Single Byte character. Request environment:vSphere 4.1 TSM Server V6.3.3 W...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Syslog encryption request for the IBM XIV arrays.

Syslog Encryption request for the IBM XIV arrays. Secure log shipping for XIV arrays
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Trigger Error 1195 A node has been missing for 30 minutes after any condition that has a node in a non functional state.

Generally the sequence we have seen is a 1196 warning email that a node has failed and then 30 minutes later an 1195 error indicating that the node has been gone for 30 minutes, which also generates an email, and a call home. What we have experien...
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Not under consideration

Use different option and configuration files in FlashCopyManager for TDP SQL

Since the TDP for SQL GUI has been deprecated and replaced by FlashCopyManager as a GUI, we are unable to select which "dsm.opt" and "tdpsql.cfg" files will be used to perform backups and restores i.e. we are forced to use the default ones: * "c:\...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 3 Not under consideration

Compression for Virtualize is Selective

Virtualize/Storwize Compression is selective by nature; meaning that it will allow you to compress data which will cause performance impact despite being able to identify non-compressible data. This leads to many performance related impacts.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Overflow data placement

When creating a new filesystem with more than 1 pool, GPFS will guess where to put the file data. It would be nice if it was also capable of spillover to other pools, when the pool it guessed for here runs full: RULE 'default' SET POOL 'data' LIMI...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

Oracle ACFS

Requesting that TSM support the backup of Oracle ACFS data. Thank you for your time,Brian
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Change in DB/View structure for Proxy agent/target and nodegroup/node relations

Have relational information between nodes/nodegroups - and proxy-agents/targets stored in tables (or presented in views) - instead of comma-seperated lists.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

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