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    Improve the Performance Investigation Interface

    When I'm doing a performance investigation using Storage Insights, I often want to compare performance from a similar time frame on a different day or week, Right now to do this I have to go into the time-frame box, and select a different start an...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

    Provide additional protection when using the decommission command against Oracle or DB2 nodes.

    Spectrum Protect Oracle and DB2 client decommission can lead to immediate data expiration and data loss. Due to the copygroup settings required for Oracle and DB2, the risk of using the decommission node command can inadvertently lead to data loss...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

    Query files content of a container

    Be able do list the files stored in directory/cloud container.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    TSM B/A Client "archive vm" equivalent of "backup vm"

    In the current TSM b/a client for windows (with VMware tools), there is a "backup vm" command that will perform full image or file level backups for VM guests. There is no option to perform an archive (file level or image) We need the ability to a...
    about 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

    IBM Spectrum Protect OneDrive Support

    IBM Spectrum Protect need to be able to protect data on Microsoft OneDrive. Our competition can do this today and customers have started asking if we can do this or not.
    about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

    Allow use of directory other then /tmp for GPFS temporary files.

    We use GPFS / Spectrum Storage on our High Performance Computing Cluster for it's primary file system and use various mm* commands to monitor the health of the cluster and alert us if GPFS goes offline on a node. If a users HPC compute job inadver...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

    Get Red Hat to work with Storage Fusion Backup & Restore

    Enhancements to Storage Fusion Backup & Restore should be made, and certification steps undertaken with Red Hat such that it is listed - preferably as the top product - on Red Hat's web site for RHOS and RH Virtualisation vendors. Currently Re...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Functionality already exists

    TS7700: Audit tracking for Dual Control

    When SSA was testing dual control there is no end-to-end audit tracking. The customer when to add a dataclass contrust, we see the request in the dual control request menu. Then the checker when an approved the request. it disappears from the requ...
    5 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Allow the auto_zone_prefix to be added even after an auto zone enabled portset has been created.

    If a customer has already setup the portsets for auto zoning, then realizes they could have setup a prefix name to help with the zone naming convention, they cannot setup the prefix without tearing down all the auto zone portsets.
    5 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Recommend adding the host name, as specified in the host definition, to the zone name

    FlashSystem auto zone in 9.1.2.1 code does not work with AIX LPM hosts, where host definitions include both the active and offline WWPNs. My speculation is, if a live WWPN cannot be seen there is no way to identify which fabric they are logged int...
    5 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Needs more information

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