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The replication vSnap needs to be on a VPN

The issue is not the existence of that replication partner, the issue is the NAT. The following happens: 1. vSnap1 connects to vSnap-VADP host name and requests the IP interfaces to connect to 2. vsnap-vadp check in the list of its network interfa...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

TS7700 and VEHSTATS tool - ORDERALL member

Today, for each new version of VEHSTATS tool, the customer have to manually customize a new ORDERALL member which is time consuming (ORDERALL member is around 1200 lines today), fastidious, with a high risk of errors.The customer wish to have the ...
over 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 3 Not under consideration

selectable DIO/nonDIO-Support on Storagepools

we are working now in our TSM-Environment with a complete implementation of GPFS as the the filesystem layer for our TSM-Plattfom on AIX and Linux. With the possibility to use many performance function in gpfs we can massively enhance our performa...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Operation Centre export/import custom Report

Spectrum Protect Operations Manager keeps the custom report in the hub server in a scratch table. When moving the hub to another server there is no easy way of exporting and importing into another hub server.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Timeout for Replication

We have seen a scenario where if we got a Network Issue between two IBM Storage Protect Servers and the replication failed on the Source machine the target machine doesn't timeout it session. When we get in that stage we can't cancel any sessions ...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

TSM &HSM independently backup data & metadata

It is about making TSM (SpectrumProtect) and HSM ready to deal with large number of files and huge data pods by doing backup of data independently from meta data.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

tape overwrite function for copy-container storage pools

Please implement a way to overwrite a tape in a container-copy storage pool. In sequential pools you could just use the "move data" command for this and move the data from one tape to another without losing temporary copy coverage or messing with ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

SPP: be able to rename SLA

SPP: Please allow for renaming SLA.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Support for GFS2 file systems

Support for GFS2 file systems. Customer tested the backup and restore of GFS2 FileSystems and the attributes are not restored. Then, the current solution is not valid
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Scale ECE - optimize the efficiency of swapd processing, and ensure consistency in file access

Current Issue: A directory A is created on GPFS Client 1. Then on Client 2, directory A is accessed and a subdirectory B is created inside it. If directory A is subsequently deleted and recreated on GPFS Client 1, attempting to create subdirectory...
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration