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Improve AFM to handle hard links correctly

As per https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-scale/5.1.2?topic=limitations-afm-afm-dr support for hard links in AFM is very constrained. This is especially problematic for the AFM data migration use case outlined here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/s...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

FlashSystem GUI + FCM + SGC --> NO PHYSICAL CAPACITY INFO

In a FS config + FCM drives, working with CSM ans SGC (SafeGuarded Copies).Each SGC reserve 2% of LOGICALcapacity of source volume. But there is not possible to view PHYSICAL CAPACITY information after FCM compression. Virtualize GUI do not show r...
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

Linux autostart two Spectrum Protect scheduler services using init.d to autostart services for two nodes on the same server

The Spectrum Protect scheduler services doesn't auto start scheduler services post reboot for two nodenames.. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-protect/8.1.6?topic=spso-setting-client-scheduler-process-run-as-background-task-start-automatically...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 5 Future consideration

Customer-managed encryption keys with KJM support in GCP Buckets

Why is it useful? Enabling CMEK support with KMS for GCP buckets provides Enhanced Security, Compliance Requirements, Key Rotation and Management, Data Sovereignty Who would benefit? Banking Customers, Customers with strict encryption requirements...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Include a section with fix number and description of fixes in the release notes

One of my customers opened a support case for an issue with CSM, the Support team found out they hit a bug in CSM and suggested to upgrade the CSM to a newer version (6.3.6.0) that included the fix, but they were not able to find any information i...
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Not under consideration

TSM4VE-Request to change local user to LDAP and AD user to do File Level Restore from TSM4VE Snapshot Backup on the Linux VM

Currently to do file level restore using File Restore UI from TSM for VE Snapshot backup, File Restore UI require local user of the Linux Virtual Server, But we would like to see a change so that a LDAP or AD user can perform restore using File Re...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Detailed License Report - Spectrum Protect Plus

The license report in SPP is not self-explanatory.Its very easy to get confused on the returned results. It would be a great help, if it was possible to expand the sources, so it was possible to see what VM's and what application instances the res...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

2 TB limit for VMware VMDK file backup

VMDK files with 2 TB or more cannot be backed up by the TSM client. The limit seems to be hardcoded. When will TSM support VMDK files with 2 TB or more?
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Allow individual NDMP backups to be deleted with a new "delet nasbackup" command

At present only the following methods can be used to delete NDMP backups in Spectrum Protect 1. Altering the copygroup settings for the management class in the policy domain which the NDMP backups are bound to and allowing expiration to run.2. Del...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Rentention Sets for SAP/ERP

Spectrum Protect retention sets are utilized to achieve longer data retention without the need to make further interactions with the host. This capability is available for file and 'VE' data. We need this to be extended for other use cases, and in...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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