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Ability to encrypt and store dsmadmc user credentials in a local file

By default the TSM baclient encrypts node user credentials in a locally stored file. Unfortunately this functionality is not present with admin user credentials when using the Admin Client (dsmadmc). In order to automate dsmadmc commands within sc...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Energy Saving = « EasyTier » + « Start and Stop » : Automatically Turning off/on the cold data storage

The Idea for energy saving is to turning off the storage (Disk drive or SSD/FCM drive) where cold data is stored and just turning on this storage when data is requested. IBM EasyTier move cold data on slow drives and move hot data on fast drives. ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Allow replication processing of data on sequential tape media to use more than one mountpoint/session per node/filespace

Allow replication processing of data on sequential tape media to use more than one mountpoint/session per node/filespace.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

gpfsperf script improvements

Though gpfsperf is a sample script, it needs improvements so that the customer local file does not get filled and cause gpfs issues: - Indicate in the read me file that the local tmp file needs to large enough for the filesize to be tested - Indic...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 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...
over 6 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
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

when the file name is longer then 255 character it does not get copied to the SMB share, in the future version we would like to see a error message, stating the file name is too long "

when a file is not getting copied, end user dont have any clue that file has not been copied from the windows. An error message would tell them to make the file name shorter.
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 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

High redundancy SAS connection between expansion ecnlosure

The current design in SAS chain can't tolerate the middle of expansion enclosure fail.The middle of expansion enclosure failed will lead to pool offline.Customer hope IBM can provide high redundancy SAS chain to tolerate any of expansion enclosure...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

CSM Topology Details Export to Not Add Spaces to CG/Session ID

Currently when we export the CSM Topology Details if there are Sessions/CG's which are a single character long, the CSV export will export those like ' 7' instead of just as 7 which means if we are using the data in another spreadsheet, we have to...
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 4 Not under consideration