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Add new command to administrative CLI to pause a script

I suggest you add a command named "wait", the purpose of which would be to pause a script in TSM CLI. For example doing "wait 10" would pause a script for 10 seconds.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Schedule Force Base Resources (full backup)

Possibilities to Schedule full backups in a SLA. Like, over a month VM makes a full backup randomly every night spread over the time you set.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Display information about encryption technology used in GUI & CLI encryption command

Display information about encryption technology used in GUI & in CLI encryption command - which will help customer's cybersecurity team - requested by customer. Check this thread in slack # specv-sme-se = https://ibm-systems-storage.slack.com/...
10 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Development team need to test the higher HBA drivers and Firmware levels to support TS4300 Tape library

Problem Statement: TS4300 Tape Library not detected from Windows 2019 OS end. Components Involved: Emulex LPe31000 HBA card and TS4300 Tape Library. Installed HBA card drivers version is : 14.0.376.10 Firmware : 12.8.351.7-11. As per the IBM Syste...
over 2 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Not under consideration

Fully decompress files on read

Allow a flag to be set on a file, fileset or filesystem to have files fully decompress on read.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Flashcopy Mgr to support multiple storages of same kind

Flashcopy Mgr currently dont support to take snapshots from multiple storages. We would like it to be able to take snapshots from more than one storage device. The XIV product is supporting cross-consistency groups, meaning that you can have volum...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

DS8000 WUI LDAP enhancements

We would like to see anonymous binding capability for LDAP with Microsoft Active Directory (MSAD). Today MSAD LDAP requires a bind ID and Password, which need to be rotated frequently - doing so on 100+ HMCs is not practical and it would also requ...
about 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

TS7700 - Surface NTP server usage via TS7700 Management Interface

Wells Fargo has requested that the TS7700 provide a method via the Management Interface that allows them to validate they the Ts7700 is utilizing a NTP server and what the IP address is for that NTP server. NTP is currently activated by the SSR vi...
about 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

vRealize Automation (vRA) / vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) plugin with SPP

Ability to interface SPP with VMware vRealize Automation (vRA) and vRealize Orchestrator (vRO)
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Bandwidth limitations / Traffic shaping / QOS for data communication

Sometimes different clients in a Spectrum Scale cluster have different IO performance requirements, but the options to resolve this by choosing adequate HW are somewhat limited. Consider clients using InfiniBand (RDMA), which will most likely use ...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

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