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dsmc - more producer threads per filesystem

Modern SAN storage should not be limited to one producer thread per client filesystem during backups, nor 4 producer threads per DSMC instance. Requesting:A) RESOURCEUTIL max value should be higher, perhaps 20. B) New option, RESTHREADSPERFS, to s...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Encryption of Server2Server Volumes

We'd like to get a possibility to use encryption on any device class protected by the current IBM Spectrum Protect Instance. Especially using server2server virtual volumes on another IBM Spectrum Protect Server, needs the data stored on the target...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Add monthly projections to the IBM Storage Protect (TSM) sizer tool

The IBM Storage Protect Sizer tool does not provide monthly projections...only yearly projections. We would like the IBM Storage Protect Sizing tool to be enhanced to also give monthly projections. This is particularly of interest to plan deliver ...
8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Tape 7700 CUIR Function Enhancement - Vary one device Online for testing purpose while the Cluster in Service Mode

First: What is it? Vary one device Online for testing purpose while the Cluster in Service Mode using CUIR Function before bring the Cluster back to Online mode using GUI. At Now, we bring the Cluster in Service Prep, then finish what need to be d...
8 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 3 Not under consideration

Improvement of the DS8000 decommission process

The embedded DSCLI should support the key management commands.
almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

VADP Proxy should be available as an appliance

The SPP server is available as an appliancevSnap server is available as an appliancebut VADP Proxy requires install of RHEL and installation of VADP Proxy software.This doesn't make any sense since the VADP Proxy already are part of the SPP server...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

make the TS4500 network 172.31.1.x changeable for all octets

Let make changeable the customer the hole IP address of the TSSC network 172.31.1.x/24 inte of only the last octet.
over 3 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

Event notification capability to mark a hardware/software event as "Acknowledged/Unfixed" to suppress daily ongoing notifications until able to be resolved.

Current Spectrum Virtualize Software behavior: When an event is triggered/logged for a hardware/software failure or pending failure it causes SNMP notification to our in-house Monitoring system that triggers a call out notification to the Team (as...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

TSM Client Support for ZFS on Linux filesystems

ZFS has been ported to Linux distributions, namely, Redhat Linux and other SysV environments. This RFE proposes to enable support for ZFS on Linux filesystems as a natively supported filesystem for backup and archive via the standard Linux TSM BA ...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Isolate File sets per node, similar to how we could isolate NFS mounts by directories.

As of now, there are 2 workarounds.Manage ACLs for PBs of storage, which gets increasingly complex to manage.2. Create multiple small file systems of few terabytes. Creating small files systems just to mount them differently makes it very ineffici...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration