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Decomission of VM

We are waiting for documemtation on how Decomission of VMs work in SPP, Case number TS0008726 Typically we do see that customer want to do one of 3 things (in order of most common) when a VM is decomissioned:Store VM for a certain time, for exampl...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Set permission for support: with customized client message or schedule of when collection of support data is allowed

Currently client can define in “set permission for support” if he allows support to collect support data without asking the client in advance This new feature will allow customer to either set a customized message 1/ ““Please collect data via SI o...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Tape replace to skip bad file

RPQ: 672-92701 When Tape state is changed to need_replace and require_replace, customer was told to migrate their data from bad tape to a new tape cartridge. While if there is a damaged file in the replace tape, ”eeadm tape replace” will stop at t...
5 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Planned for future release

Support migrate and recall REST API in storage archive

RPQ: 672-92700 As we know, in hyperscale tape storage system tape archive node works with customer distributed storage system. The current interface between tape archive and customer distributed storage system is command, it is limited in local OS...
5 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Planned for future release

Performance improvements for LTO9 unload

RPQ: 672-95268 Both Tencent and Baidu have requested performance improvements for LTO9 unload. Since LTO9 performs low-tension unload this can be slower than LTO8. However, there is an LTO9 option with the RAO command that will optimize the LTO9 u...
5 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Planned for future release

Request for SMTP Settings Feature in TS2900 Tape Library

Dear IBM Product Management Team, I hope this message finds you well. I am reaching out to request an enhancement for the TS2900 Tape Library related to its SMTP configuration capabilities. Currently, the SMTP settings on the TS2900 do not support...
5 months ago in IBM TS2900 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Control on Red Hat on Power LE

Spectrum Control need to run on these architectures: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (may be other distributions) on Power Little Endian Architectures (RHEL 8.x LE on S9xx L servers, LCxxx servers, AC922 servers). All the stack is from IBM or subsidiaries.
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Future consideration

Need larger DB2 active log file size

While working on HADR, a DB2 specialist noted that DB2 under SP was archiving the active log at a higher than normal rate and recommended increasing the current DB2 LOGFILSIZ to make it ten (10) times larger. However, the customer was unable to ma...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

Need support of Power 8/9 Compression HW chip on AIX Client for TSM Client

Hellowe have implemented a new Backup LAN with CISCO ACI Network 40 GBit and made backup over this seperate lan to tsm serverWe need to do a compression on the TSM Client side because the TSM Servers has currently not the capabilities to store unc...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

SPP integration with vmware VIX

VMware VIX api integration provides a very useful tool to avoid VMware virtual machines can backup/restore indivual files from Hypervisor instead of accessing directly to the VM. VM accesses is not necessary. In many customers, VM networks are not...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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