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Add LTO lcd display to drives view

Add a column to drives view that shows the LCD status digit for LTO drives.
about 5 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Future consideration

G0015 message should have corresponding information in TS7700 MI

We recently had a very short 16 second total WAN outage between our two data centers. During this time at least one cluster in every VTS grid send out this message:CBR3750I MESSAGE FROM LIBRARY PVTD016: G0013 Library 00016 has experienced an unexp...
about 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Change QUERY ACTLOG output to match terminal window width

I'm not sure if this RFE applies to the server or dsmadmc client, but the request is to change the behavior of the QUERY ACTLOG command output to stretch (and wrap if necessary) to the current width of the terminal window where it is running.Other...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Enhance zero touch agent injection by automatically making the changes to support SPP agent to the server

Customer has requested making the zero touch agent injection process simpler. For this specific case, the pre-requisites to inject an agent on a Linux server is a lengthy process. They would like to see if this can be done automatically when deplo...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Change of communication for instant mount/instant full restore for TSM4VE

When using Instant Mount or Instant Full Restore in TSM4VE, all communication should be initiated from the client towards the server.Currently, traffic will be initiated from the TSM server towards the vStorage backup server on TCP ports 1501 and/...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Support for Domino Protect for Mail (TDP) for Ubuntu

Domino is supported on a range of Linux operating-systems. But this requires also backup solutions to be available for those Linux platforms. Domino on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is getting more and more attraction and should be supported b TDP.
10 months ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 0 Under review

Add Broadcom SAS 3808/3908 HBAs in Scale ECE

One of OEM partners are planning to replace existing SAS 3108 HBA with SAS 3808/3908 HBAs. But we didn't find SAS 3808/3908 HBAs in the support list of ECE 5.1.9. The partner hope IBM can support SAS 3808/3908 HBAs in the next release. They can pr...
10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Scheduled reports. Save to local path in SPP

Hi.Regarding how to schedule a report to NOT use smtp server due to DMZ and sectret networks. We are handling SPP in DMZ and secret networks where there is no smpt server allowed. How can we save scheduled reports to a local path?For us this is im...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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

Integrate Departments/Applications/Groups with ServiceNow - sync server associations for reporting

Integrate ServiceNow's CMDB (or Configuration items) with the servers in Spectrum Storage Insights and retrieve Business Line and Application associations
about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

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