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Time Machine over SMB

Since the last OSX release, Apple has deprecated they're "AFP" protocol and want to use SMB for everything, TimeMachine included.In order to have a SMB share working with TimeMachine, it need to complain some specs. Here are the specs: https://dev...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 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

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

TSM4VE - requirement of Windows proxy for file-level restore in Linux environments

Setting up a TSM4VE file-level restore for Linux in a Linux only environment requires a Windows based TSM4VE proxy. Customer requested support for a Linux only based TSM4VE proxy instead.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Different retention policies (Time) for SAP HANA Backup

customers wants to use of existing SAP HANA backup data to satisfy business needs for weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly data collections without using different nodes for the identical machine
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Not under consideration

increase IBM Spectrum Protect transfer rates to SWIFT/S3 capable ObjectStore

Current data chunks aggregation rate between TSM's deduplication engine and HTTP PUTs is too low to take full advantage of huge bandwidth SWIFT ObjectStore can provide, especially when Erasure Coded data placements algorithm is used.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Not under consideration

Extend "deactivate data" to other applications, not only limited to Oracle

Currently, the "deactivate data" command is limited to Oracle data. It should be expanded to include the other application data such as DB2, SQL, etc. Also add the filespace option to the command.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

TSM instance incompatibility with git in IBM's Linux Toolbox

The problem appears to be that when login to the tsm instance account, which includes this in the ~/.profile file: # The following three lines have been added by IBM DB2 instance utilities. if [ -f /tsm/sqllib/db2profile ]; then . /tsm/sqllib/db2p...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

GUI enhancement to better monitor core activity and not overall averages

GUI enhancement to monitor CPU and see all core thread activity. Current GUI limits via to average node level activity and this limits the data viewed
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Config Node control on next movement

would like a feature that can identify the next targeted config node and have the ability to change the next targeted node.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

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