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    More granular level of tape data retention than just categories

    At the host, a user can set more than one retention period for a category/media type for an LPAR. The TS7700 allows only one retention period per Category by design. The issue is that if a host user modifies the retention period at the host (malic...
    about 6 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Planned for future release

    You are not warned of IOGrp Overload

    Storwize will let you continue to add volumes to an overloaded IOgrp. There are no limits in this area which means you can add more work to an already stressed IOGRP. There is no balance either meaning one IOgrp can be over loaded while other IOgr...
    about 7 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    "Totals" option for adding up how Volumes and Utilization per Application

    When certain reports are selected, the ability to SUM certain fields that are selected into a "Total Summary" at the top of a report would very helpful. In the reports lets say we select Volume Report and then select the columns we want to see. Be...
    over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Add "Remove" disk to Virtualize GUI

    Add "remove disk" function to the GUI. To remove a disk required using the CLI. In the above ticket, the SV1 phoned home for a drive throwing errors. It was determined the drive needed to be replaced. The SSR went on site and was working with the ...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Protect Plus - Remove from SLA button

    When modifying subject being backed up by a specific SLA, it would be more user friendly if you added a "Remove SLA" / "Unassign from SLA" button. Now i need to "Select a SLA Policy" to actually unselect a subject from a SLA.
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Request to add native Sybase Support to Spectrum Protect (DP for Sybase)

    Sybase produces Enterprise class RDBMS solutions for a variety of uses cases and industries. While perhaps not as pervasive as MS SQL or Oracle, the product does appear fairly frequently in customer environments. While there are a variety of metho...
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Not under consideration

    Db2admin member of local administrators group

    Due to security policy the db2admin user should not be member of the local administrators group in Windows. The DB2 service can run as a service but the Spectrum Protect Server needs to be a member of the local admin group.
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Point in Time Restore facility

    With DB2 as core of TSM to reduce the impact and time to restore a TSM-DB we want to have a function like point in time restore capability. These Function enable us to reduce our outage window in an case of an disaster.
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

    Active Directory integration with TSM

    Full Active Directory integration required as a single sign on solution
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    SI no longer shows data collection logs

    Recent versions of SI have removed the ability to view data collection logs.
    over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

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