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Support for wildcards in directory restore command.

Support for wildcards in directory restore command.We want to have same wildcard ussage for Query backup command and Restore command. Now are wildcards in restore command restricted to be used in the file name or extension; they cannot be used in ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Ability to restore a mailbox to a PST without connecting to an Exchange Server

Customers require to restore mailbox without needing to connect to an Exchange Server
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

encryptkey with LAN-free does not work on Spectrum Protect v8.1.6

End User upgrade their IBM Spectrum Protect to version 8.1.6. They requested to have client encryption to fulfill their security requirements. However, the client encryption function that supported before is told no longer working now ("encryptkey...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Incompatible "username" setting between the TSSC "Call home settings" of TS7700 and the CSP tool

In the TSSC "Call home settings" of the TS7700 unit it is not possible to enter a space in the "username" setting from the panel "Location Settings" while it is required to be compatible with the waited informations in CSP.
almost 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Planned for future release

FTP and HTTP CES support

Support FTP and HTTP access on CES protocol nodes.
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

Ship ESS Bundles with full RHEL BaseOS and AppStream Repo

ESS Bundles currently ship with a crippled set of RPMs from the RHEL BaseOS and AppStream Repos. We want that the ESS Bundles are ship with the full RHEL BaseOS and AppStream Repos. Please revert back to what you've initially done with GSS and shi...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale System 2 Future consideration

Provide historical n/w metrics in TS7700 historical view

We experienced recent performance issues in our VTS environment and were having problems isolating the issue. It turned out to be WAN saturation so our 'sync across the WAN' workload was the only ones being slowed down. However, we only came to th...
over 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Not under consideration

Avoid dropping instance while upgrade

Upgrading to current IBM Spectrum Protect Version drops instance during installation in silent mode although settings in responsefile to not touch/update the DB were set.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Increase independent inode filesets from 1000 to 32k

We have a customer that requires their projects separated via independent inode filesets. They are against the 1000 fileset limit and need it to be increased to a more realistic number.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

CSM To Include the System and Path for any Alert Message About Paths

Please include the system and the path in any email notifications about paths. Also these messages should be logged to the console as well as being sent in email.
over 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration