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Better estimation on tape capacity

At the moment TSM does not do any true estimation or ongoing estimation on the capacity of a tape.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

FreeBSD support for TSM Client

FreeBSD support for TSM Client
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Change or add algorithm that TSM will use to select scratch tapes.

TSM DRM tapes are checked out of the tape library, and taken offsite for disaster recovery. When the tapes are returned from offsite, and put back into the library and go back to scratch status, the acquired count goes back to 0. The tapes get use...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 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 ...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Modification of smb.conf to prevent vulnerability

The customer has to set 'server signing=mandatory' in smb.conf to prevent vulnerability.https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/887429http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731957.aspxhttp://www.nessus.org/u?74b80723http://www.samba.org/samba...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum CDM Support for CSV with SQL

Request if for support SQL Servers configured with Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV). With Copy Data Management
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

SNMPv3 support in GPFS GUI

Morgan Stanley is asking for upgrade to SNMPv3 (GPFS GUI alerts)
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

VE file level restore lacks of indexing

Unable to quickly find deleted files without mounting all potential snapshots
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 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.
almost 7 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...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration