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HTTP banner in DSMCAD Spectrum Protect client

When scanning open ports of servers, the port 1581 (default, or configured by "httpport" in dsm.opt) answers with the string "Server: TSM_HTTP/0.1".This might be a security issue, as an attacker could see, which software is (TSM / Spectrum Protect...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Scale CES SMB-NFS Separation

The today CES Protocoll implementation of the accestype file NFS and SMB are implementetd together. This seems to be a Problem if we want to separatly maintain the component. If we stop smb we see already issues in nfs. This is for us not really a...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Querying actlog with option MSGNO can only be done with one argument, this should be extendend to use more arguments

The search in Actlog with the msgno option should be extended so that it is possible to search for several message numbers. For example, msgno=0293,0294 should be possible in a query so that you can see the start and end of an action, therefore yo...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 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

Support for up to 8 IO Group Systems

Seeking support for up to 8 SVC IO groups, 16 nodes in total.
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Allow pending glacier protocol requests automatic clean up on SP server for failed or aborted restores

Design of the code needs to clean up automatically on the SP server left over glacier restore requests coming from Spectrum Protect Plus when the client (here SPP) has failed or the user cancelled the active restore process.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Adding Compute Express Link CXL 3.0 or CXL 4.0 to the IBM DS8000

The future of DS8000 for IBM Z and LinuxONE will need to add Compute Express Link CXL 3.0 or CXL 4.0 interface to the DS8000 to satisfy the needs of the AI Data centers. Please, refer to the other complementary idea "Adding Compute Express Link CX...
almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

speed up backup stgpool for file pools with dataformat=nonblock

On a SP server, we have lots of data from a CM8 environment, e.g. very many small files. About half of it from ICC and the other half from d3. 99% of this data is stored in FILE pools with DATAFORMAT=NONBLOCK because otherwise SP would cause a sto...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

IBM Backup, Recovery and Media Services (BRMS) for i and Tivoli Storage Manager for IBM i

I've a client in Moçambique that would like to back an Exictos-Promosoft Financial Suite on an IBM iSeries box (aka AS400's) using TSM V7.1 or later. Could you let me know if this is possible and how the client can do this. The client also has oth...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

VM move from one VC to another schould be recognized by SPP

In large and grown VMware environments it can happen that VMs have to be moved from one virtual center to the next in the same cluster. With Virtual Centers that have existed for many years, VMware Support may recommend installing a new VC and mov...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

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