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TSM4VE Cloud Service Provider Mode

Because of all ransomware attacks we see more transformations from other backup vendors back to IBM Storage Protect for VE, but the issue with TSM4VE is that it demanding a System Account in the Storage Protect Server to be able to work, we have d...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Storage Rule Exclude Function

Today when you create a Storage Rule Replication you can either assign all nodes or exclude all nodes and then create a subrule and include/exclude specific nodes. In our case do we have a 2 Sites solution where we replicate data between sites, th...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Better Information for Storage Rule

If we run any Storage rule like Replication or Tiering of data between pools and we see it failed of some reasons. A natural way to investigate a issue is to run the same command manually using wait=yes and in that way get more information, but ve...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Needs more information

Fully decompress files on read

Allow a flag to be set on a file, fileset or filesystem to have files fully decompress on read.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Development team need to test the higher HBA drivers and Firmware levels to support TS4300 Tape library

Problem Statement: TS4300 Tape Library not detected from Windows 2019 OS end. Components Involved: Emulex LPe31000 HBA card and TS4300 Tape Library. Installed HBA card drivers version is : 14.0.376.10 Firmware : 12.8.351.7-11. As per the IBM Syste...
over 2 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Not under consideration

DS8000 WUI LDAP enhancements

We would like to see anonymous binding capability for LDAP with Microsoft Active Directory (MSAD). Today MSAD LDAP requires a bind ID and Password, which need to be rotated frequently - doing so on 100+ HMCs is not practical and it would also requ...
over 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

more control over hiding snapshot dirs / extend mmsnapdir

There seems to be no way to get rid of the .snapshots subdir in the root of indendepent snapshots. This is a problem when mirroring data using rsync. Because we do not want to rsync snapshots we need to exclude them. But for correct mirroring we a...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

TS7700 - Surface NTP server usage via TS7700 Management Interface

Wells Fargo has requested that the TS7700 provide a method via the Management Interface that allows them to validate they the Ts7700 is utilizing a NTP server and what the IP address is for that NTP server. NTP is currently activated by the SSR vi...
about 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

If there is a broken or offline canister, make it easier for the offline canister to rejoin the good canister after the offline canister is replaced

Customer had a canister that was replaced. The new canister would not boot. Support had to work with the admin to run the chbootdrive command to update the serial number to the new canister to get things fully working. The request is for an enhanc...
10 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Replicate NDMP TOC

NDMP TOC still has to be backed up into a file class, and cannot be replicated. This is unacceptable for the "push everything in the cloud" mentality.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration