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Spectrum Protect : Protect stg from Directory container to Cloud Container

Current TSM do not support Protect STG from Directory container to Cloud container. with Cloud Teiring its support Move of the data from directory container to Cloud container, but we dont have a way to only copy of the data. When you dont have lo...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 7 Not under consideration

TS7700 Feature License panel should have option to display by s/n and not by node

Recently we noticed that a few features on the TS7700 were missing. The codes had been shipped but not installed. In trying to match up the feature codes that we did have installed we noticed that some of the feature codes are listed twice in the ...
over 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

expandvdisksize include a -finalsize instead of -size

RFE for expanding an FS900 volume via the CLI (doesn't allow New Total, Grow by, or Current Size) like GUI does. Ask them to allow "New Total" parameter NEW_SIZE instead of EXPAND_BY
about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Make Spectrum Protect Plus IPv6 compliant

Spectrum Protect Plus only works with IPv4.If only IPv6 is enabled than SPP is not working (loses connection to his VDAP storage by example).So can you make SPP IPv6 compliant.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

rc.dsmcad RC script should be able to stop individual dsmcad processes

TSM for VE datamover server requires multiple dsmcad RC scripts.The TSM for VE installation manual descripts how to copy the rc.dsmcad script into /etc/init.d and name it something different and how to change the export statements.The service comm...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 5 Not under consideration

Let BA client access replicated data when dissimilar policies are on

I work for a BP, long term working with ADSM and TSM (started when I was IBM) and now with SP. I always tried to keep informed about new features and this time we found a customer interested to REPLICATION to protect data and extend retention with...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Improve "generate dedupstats" to run filespaces in node parallell

When running generate dedupstats on a node with thousands of VM filespaces, it runs for weeks before it completes. These should kick off in separate processes so that it can be managed by the Maxprocesses value.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Storage Insights to Allow CSV Reporting for Consumer and Chargeback Reports

Please add the ability to send CSV attachments of the Consumer and Chargeback reports, as have been added for the other reports available in Storage Insights. Also if there can be an option to add a line with totals at the bottom of each report th...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Operation center does not support working with server groups

Because of the size of our environment (30 servers) we use servergroups for several things like for instance routing a command to several servers at once. The use, creation and modification of server groups is currently not supported in operation ...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

multi-tenant requirement for POSIX interface

The ESS storage is manged by customer storage department. the clients are from different business departments. The customer takes NFS interface for data access. The customer wants to take POSIX interface for their clients because of performance. H...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

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