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TSM fails taking backups of Informix.

When customer take a backup from TSM for Informix , the backup fails, they checked the problem and informix get locks.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

TDP for Hyper-v vm replication fail.

When using TDP for Hyper-V. VM's are not able to use Microsoft replication thru Hyper-V Manager due to the fact that vm files are changed from VHD to AVHD format.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

TSM for VE improved VApp support in VCloud environment

Allow backup of a VApp and allow restore of an individual VM into the VApp
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

inode number limit

Need to restrict the inode number to be lower than 2^32 . If its greater than that, 32 bit applications are failing complaining file not found.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

additional exclude options from file-level VM backups using "vmbackuptype=file"

Currently on exclude and exclude.dir are supported. Having the ability to exclude drives or filesystems with exclude.fs or exclude.vmdisk would be beneficial
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

V7000 Amber LED warning light turning off before disk has been replaced

Issue we are seeing with the V7000 is that the Amber LED warning light turning off before disk has been replaced.
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Extend 512 Character Filter limit in TSM for VE Backups

The filter limit of 512 Characters is too limiting. In a large environment this limit causes admins to create multiple schedules to accomplish what one schedule should be able to do. Having these multiple schedules causes additional problems such ...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Exclude SRM placeholders in TSM for VE backups

There are no viable options to exclude SRM placeholders from TSM for VE backups. TSM for VE should either identify or filter out SRM placeholders from showing in the backup selection view.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Adding Exclude statement for Hyper-V backups

We do not find Exclude statement for hyper-v backups.Customer is not able to exclude particular VM from backup.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Integrate AD for user authentication in ESS

Currently the Storage Team uses root to log into the ESS I/O nodes and EMS but it would be nice to set them to integrate with Active Directory for non-root users. We assume other customers use AD for authentication on their EMS and I/O nodes.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Not under consideration

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