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Automatic decommission for clients on cloud server

Decommissioning of clients does not always happen for clients on the cloud server. This leaves clients data in the cloud and can increase our monthly chargeback for cloud storage along with maintaining data passed the retention date – can cause le...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Assign multiple datamover to a single vapp

For large vapps, one dm is not enough. It should be possible to assign multiple datamovers to one vapp (or multiple datamovers per vdc)
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Restore single vm from vapp

Select a single vm from a vapp that should be restored. Either as a new vapp, or import to an existing. Must be available from the web gui.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Not under consideration

Enable TSM API to access/process TSM backup client contents

We are going to implement the API to automate the commands "query backup" and "restore" as a web service with unicode support. Unfortunately, this task can't be completed successfully, although we orient on the code that was provided with the SAMP...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Enabling LTFS file system quotas at user or group level

Without a user or group quota on LTFS file system, all the HPC cluster users can save their data on LTFS without any limits.
over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Not under consideration

V5000 GUI change

Per my client: Please add an option in the V5000 GUI that allows a Storage admin to change the link speed from 10Gbps to 1 Gbps.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Add SSD 2.5 inch support in V7000 x12 frames

Make it possible to install a 2.5 inch SSD to be used in a x12 V7000 frame. This upgrade could exist of a bracket to fit a 2.5 inch SSD in a 3.5 inch drive slot.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

ICStore integrated in SVC

Requested by Customer Daimler and JCI we need an additional tier in the SVC to move data to the cloud
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

migrate vdisk to tier

We want to be able to pin a vdisk's extents to a particular tier but retain easy tier 3's performance-based balancing within the tier.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

Can IBM repackage the C++ installer to install to the same folder as TSM along with the TSM Client install

Can IBM repackage the C++ installer to install to the same folder as TSM along with the TSM Client install?
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Not under consideration

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