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AIX v7.3 support for IBM Spectrum Control Server

Add AIX v7.3 to the list of OSs supported by IBM Spectrum Control Server.
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

Excluded port issue for EMC VNX storage behind SVC

The customer has 8 SVC clusters with 8 nodes on their environment. They have many different type of storages produced by different vendors. They have faced with a problem only between SVC and EMC VNX midrange storage. When a drive streams soft med...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Admin User Creation Segregation of Duty

Due to enhanced security requirements the customer would like to have a segregation of duty for the creation of admin users. The possibility of creating new admin users and granting them system authority should be removed from the admin/system aut...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Mailbox Item Level restore

There is functionality with ISP for Mail (Exchange) that let administrators to restore mailbox item from mailbox database backup, using Mailbox Restore Browser - functionality in ISP for Mail GUI, but it works up to MS Exchange 2013. With Exchange...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Not under consideration

Point in Time Restore facility

With DB2 as core of TSM to reduce the impact and time to restore a TSM-DB we want to have a function like point in time restore capability. These Function enable us to reduce our outage window in an case of an disaster.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Add GRID REQUEST Licenced volser Information to the LI REQ command

Add GRID REQUEST API output to the LI REQ,libname,GRID,REQUEST command so that we can fetch the licences volsers information from z/OS HOST itself.
10 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Needs more information

SPVE vCenter Backup Failure resolution

We are using SPVE to backup vCenter appliances. We frequently get timeout errors when creating snapshot. Would like some facility to resolve this issue, possibly an option to extend the timeout value.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Manual Installation SPP Plus Client

File System Inventory Failing to complete over the WAN. According to support this could due the low network bandwidth between the SPP Server and the remote client. I ask a procedure to manually install the client on the remote server and Support a...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

File level restore web GUI - Prevent providing TSM admin credentials

To enable the file level restore web GUI, from the TSM for VMware web GUI configuration wizard, it is required to enter TSM admin server credentials. Due to security reasons it is not desirable to be able to connect to the TSM admin ports or to lo...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Support for dynamic expansion of each constituent volume in Storage Scale GPFS's File System, especially in combination with Db2 PureScale on Public Cloud.

It is necessary to support dynamic expansion of each constituent volume itself, rather than GPFS expansion by adding volumes. Adding volumes has a limit on the number of expansions. The method of adding a volume larger than the existing volume an...
10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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