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Fix BKI6243E error for HANA with SSL enforced

TSM to work with sslEnforce = True parameter on SAP HANA database
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Future consideration

SafeGuarded backup allocation using a pool concept

Customer is running Safe Guarded backups for a month (31 days) worth of backups on a daily schedule. They have around 3500 volumes. Many of these are involved in DB2 and ADBAS databses. These database volumes (as well as some system volumes) under...
over 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Drive letter definition per Windows client.

Currently Windows client mount drive letters can only be defined when a cluster is created. This is inflexible if a drive letter is not defined on a cluster and Windows clients need adding later. The only workaround is to create a remote cluster t...
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Functionality already exists

gskcrypt64-8.0.55 rpm packages require invalid binary files /bin/ln and /bin/sh

For a long time RHEL has provided both /bin/X and /usr/bin/X even though the packages only install /usr/bin/X This is true for RHEL7, RHEL8 and RHEL9 The gskcrypt64 package should have been changed a long time ago to require /usr/bin/X components ...

Increase the DS8000 TCT throughput per dataset

Customer is using DS8K TCT with HSM in mainframe to have a 3rd copy of data in the IBM Cloud (COS).They are using 3 DS8K boxes and the total throughput they can achieve is not enough to send the data generated in the last 24h every day.The limitat...
over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

CSM support for cascaded 4-site replication

Our 4-site environment is a cascaded replication from A-B-C-D where A-B is metro mirror, B-C is a Global mirror, C-D is a global copy. I see in CSM 6.2.6, there is a 4-site support added but it is a MMGMGCreplication., which is A-B (MM), A-C (GM),...
over 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 4 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect (TSM) client for Linux on System z has no GUI client since 8.1.2 release

The IBM Spectrum Protect client for System z no longer has a means to access a newer release (8.1.2 or newer) server due to so called improvements in security between clients and server. Previously, clients were able to communicate with the server...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 6 Future consideration

Support Windows 2019 on the SP B/A client

More and more customers are asking about when we will support Windows Server 2019 to be able to install the B/A client.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Planned for future release

Releasing space in DB

There is a manual method to Releasing space in DB2 9.7 table spaces. (Online Reorg)Run analyze_DB2_formulas.pl data.And run db2 alter tablespace for tables that can free desirable space (from output of above perl script).This step could be embedde...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Keep supporting TSM API (backup to TSM via BRMS on IBM i)

Please do not discontinue this support.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration