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    Prometheus Exporter for Tape Library metrics

    Currently the CLI and the REST API allows to monitor the TS4500 library by self written scripts. But it would be very useful to have a simple script which already provides all available metrics of the library to Prometheus. In our Environment we u...
    about 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Multiple Storage Protect Server DB backup on one tape

    Currently SP only supports storing one internal DB backup per volume. If using tape (as recommended) e.g. LTO9 this results in using a 18 TB tape volume for storing only 100 GB database backup. Running 20 instance and doing 2 DB backup per day kee...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4

    Node custom information user field

    A 'custom information' field is desirable where we could input information in any format we as a user wish. There is no custom field to use for node details. Only 'Contact' field is available and it is not sufficient.
    almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Citibank: Add 2 more EKMs entries on the data at rest page on the MI so that we can add 2 IP’s and Ports for SKLM and 2 IP’s and Ports for GKLM (Different Key Servers for Tape and Disk)

    CITI is planning to leverage external encryption for their TS7700 systems as part of their long-term data security strategy. Currently, the Management Interface (MI) on TS7700 only allows for the configuration of a single set of IP addresses and p...
    about 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Under review

    Display retentionset in the BA client

    The new Retention set function (aka OneProtect) is great but from the BA client (or TSM4VE) it's not possible to see which retention sets that are available. Id like to get the info on "q retset" info in the server into the BA client. On the cli s...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

    'mmdf Device -h' for Human Readable Output

    I'm used to do 'df -h' on linux operating systems to get human readable output. With 'mmdf' I have to use 'mmdf Device --block-size=auto' for human readable output, which is a bit unhandy for me. My suggestion is, to invent 'mmdf device -h' for hu...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Have CDM support use DB_UNIQUE_NAME identifier for discovery of Oracle data guarded databases instead of DB_NAME (or as an alternative option)

    Any customer using Oracle Data Guard would find this useful. All databases within a dataguard configuration must have the same db_name value, it's an Oracle requirement. In order to distinguish one database from another within the configuration, t...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Copy Data Management 1 Submitted

    multiple backup sessions per FS

    It would be interesting to be able to backup a single big FS with multiple backup sessions without the need to define VirtualMountpoints ( besides virtualmountpoints is not available on windows ).If the DSMC could automatically scan the directory ...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 7 Not under consideration

    TSM Audit library should not require setting the library "offline"

    TSM Library Manager often loses information about the location of a cartridge in the library.Most of all cases happen after a Drive-, or Robot-mechanics failure.TSM Librarymanager then demands an "Audit Library".To do that "audit", we need to stop...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 5 Future consideration

    Support export node when using directory container storage pools

    Simpler way to move data from one SP server to another versus node replication, also support export node ti filedev class.The command export node today runs but in actlog all files present that it is not allowed, the command should have resturned ...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

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