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Add REstApi to query all volumes on a DS8K

You can only have a list of volumes if you gives the pool_id or LSS_id. Is-it possible to have a Rest Api to have a list of all volumes on a DS8K without to do looping query on LSS or pool_id ?
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

Operations Center Reports, provide a test button of custom SQL

Today when creating a custom report in Operations Center the interface automatically sends sql select queries to the server to check if the work. This could be done multiple time during the time when you edit the report, that puts a lot of load on...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 0 Not under consideration

fix column widths in dsmadmc interactive screen output

When using dsmadmc for SP management, the screen output quality looks often still like from previous century. Especcially number columns are often too narrow even when there is plenty of console width still available. This leads to wrapped numbers...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

log on to SPP with single sign on (Use Windows session authentication)

please activate log on to SPP with single sign on(Use Windows session authentication) also a log on procedure with smart card would be convenient.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus - bring greater visibility on data and metadata if both do not match

TS003754429It was recommended for a RFE to be opened to give greater visibility into what is on the vSNAPs matches what is in the SPP database/catalog.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus (SPP) needs to be installable in Azure

Spectrum Protect Plus (SPP) server and vSnap needs to be installable in Azure.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Enable wildcards on storage pools and node names on DEDUPSTATS commands

Enable usage of wildcards and/or nodegroups on storage pools and node names on the commands: GENERATE DEDUPSTATSDELETE DEDUPSTATSQUERY DEDUPSTATS
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Multisession replication of a big file

At the moment the limitation of replication over the WAN with latency and package lost is the fact, that one file can only be replicated in one session. Starting with TSM 7.1 big files are represented by segments within TSM, but still only one ses...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

Need the ability to seed initial data from source vSnap to target replication vSnap

A customer has requested the ability to physically send a copy of data on external media from the source vSnap to the site that has the target replication vSnap for ingest rather than send the data over their network. They would like to do this to...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Make it possible to bypass tsm admin config on TSM4VE Web Interface

It should be possible to "bypass" the TSM Server credentials configuation in the TSM4VE Web interface.Once the configuration has been "bypassed", TSM4VE should never ask for it again.
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

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