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    TSM Snapdiff backup and usage of Snapdiffchangelog in Stagingdirectory

    First concerns is with the stagingdirectory itself. In documentation for BA client (7.1.3) is the following statement:"The stagingdirectory option defines the location where the client can keep anydata that it generates to perform its operations. ...
    about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 0 Not under consideration

    Method for monitoring/alerting on performance of cache to S3 data movement

    There is currently no method to monitor the migration of local cache storage to S3 object storage. There is therefore no easy way to know if data are being moved and if they are moving sufficiently quickly to be completed before the next backup. I...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Future consideration

    customer needs more information in Operations Center to be able to effectively perform disaster recovery.

    A customer needs more information in the Operations Center to be able to effectively perform Disaster Recovery (testing or real-life). This includes:- Volume history information for DB Backup/DB Snapshot.- DRM Volumes and status/location. - volume...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

    Include disk topology alerts in ESS gui

    We recently had a SAS cable go bad on an ESS system. While gnrhealthcheck clearly showed there was a problem, there was no indication in the gui that anything was wrong. According to IBM support, this is a known issue. It would be helpful if the g...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect Plus Ad hoc snapshot which is generated from daily backup for weekly / monthly / Yearly

    Spectrum Protect Plus Ad hoc snapshot which is generated from daily backup for weekly / monthly / Yearly Currently we need to create new SLA for create additional weekly / monthly / yearly which need additional backup windows time and additional s...
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Protocols: Support a PAM configuration supporting winbindd and Active Directory, not local accounts only, on ces nodes.

    Currently protocol nodes using Active Directory authentication don't support accounts from AD when you connect with ssh. The needed pam_winbind.so pam module is not provided by scale/protocols. Only local accounts work. Maintaining local admin acc...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Protect - password strength

    Spectrum Protect has no capability to enforce strong passwords for "local" IDs. Only the length of the password can be specified. The new TLS certificates do give some better security. But I would like to see SP enforce strong passwords, eg 14 ran...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    multi-tenant requirement for POSIX interface

    The ESS storage is manged by customer storage department. the clients are from different business departments. The customer takes NFS interface for data access. The customer wants to take POSIX interface for their clients because of performance. H...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    mmchconfig and mmvdisk configure need to be more transparent

    Today, there is no association between mmvdisk configure and mmchconfig. The RFE is to have one command for setting both GPFS parameters and mmvdisk and for mmvdisk to have a way to preserve any previously customized parameters.
    about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    TSM for VE 'Monthlies' 'Yearlies'

    Multiple different schedules and retentions are not supported when using the TSM for VE vsphere plugin or web client (or generally). This means a customer must create separate servers in order to keep a 'monthly' set of data for a year, otherwise ...
    almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

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