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Add functionality to Data Protection For Exchange to allow restore of soft deleted mailboxes

System: Data Protection For Exchange Actor: User needing to recover soft deleted mailboxes.Data protection is a commonly used product that provides backup/restore for Exchange environments. Description: We use Data Protection For Exchange to prote...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Not under consideration

Reduce Spectrum Protect Operatin Center query to bring down load on SP database

Regarding TS004537647. That is correct that there's no issue with finishing the daily work in a timely matter. There are some tunables to reduce the frequency of queries or stop them altogether. One of the background threads that is the busiest is...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Not under consideration

Change dafault on deployments

Reevaluate default settings for retention of events and how frequent you pull or generate them. Option set:Activity Log Retention: 120 Day(s) - keep actlog longer than 4 quarter time limit, 100 days bare minimum, old setting from a time when 1GB o...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Ops Center Reporting

similar to "To pull graphical representing reports from operation center (102024)". The canned "General Operations" report is very nice and useful. It would be nice if we could generate similar reports but there is no documentation on how to do that.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 0 Not under consideration

Ability to define the mirrorwritepriority parameter during creation of a vdisk mirroring in the GUI.

Ability to define the mirrorwritepriority parameter during creation of a vdisk mirroring in the GUI.
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Custom certificate for TSM-VE for VMware plugin

I would like to get an interface or at least a procedure (commands) to replace the builtin autogenerated certificate push in TSM-VE plugin for VMware. Actually, we need to manually install this autogenerated certificate on each new machine that co...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

include tape pool in eeadm drive list

In eeadm drive list command, try to include options to print a more information, like: - Include a column with Node Name instead of Node ID for clarity- Include a column with the tape pool name of the tape mounted
almost 6 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Not under consideration

check computability of Line tape version 3 .0.60 VS Kernel 3.10.0-1160.25.1.el7.x86_64 , 3.10.0-1160.el7.x86_64 OS RHEL 7.9

Hi Team as advised by PFE Ref to case TS011516098 to open RPQ Ref to old case TS006661327 Devlopment and PFE advised to upgrade from line tape 3.0.56-1.x86_64 to line tape version 3.0.60 in the coming PMN to overcome issue of CPU hang /TSM server ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

Open LDAP support

LDAP authetication is only supported with :ADIBM directory server It is possible to support LDAP authetication with Open LDAP ?
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Node replication failed and does not replicate all data if a communication error occurred on the source or target server

The node replication failed and does not replicate all data if a communication error occurred on the source or target replication server.Occasionally, node replication will complete with a FAILURE in spite of replicating all objects after having a...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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