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    support RHEL6, SLES11 and Debian in Scale 5.0

    Add support for RHEL6, Debian and SLES11 to Scale 5.0.
    about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    Single VM Backup History

    A common question is ‘why is my VM taking ages to backup'. A Gannt chart view is a really powerful tool for answering these questions. In the example below the VM backed up mostly between 19:00 and 23:00, except on Mondays when there was extra chu...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    AFM-COS configuration option for proxy servers

    At the moment you cannot configure AFM-COS to use an explizit http(s) proxy server to connect to an external S3 storage.Please also add proxy support to AFM-COS as it is already available for the TCT or call home features.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    In clustered (HA) environments, Spectrum Protect should support installing interim fixes without downtime

    We are using Spectrum Product for Data Retention in a document centric application step, that serves access to contract statements over the web in an always on environment. Maintenance (major version or scheduled FP upgrade) is expected to be deli...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    An error Icon should overlay the question mark

    In a CSM HA Configuration (Standby Server is configured) it is the case that if this server is down that a question mark is displayed at the top menu (e.g. at the “Storage” Menu bar”). So far so good.If now an outage happens (e.g. from one storage...
    over 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

    Document CLI based upgrade of SPP server

    Our team uses IBM Spectrum Protect Plus server for data backup and for data reuse. However, we need to upgrade IBM Spectrum Protect Plus server component to current version but we cannot access the admin interface on port 8090 cause this IP port i...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Optimize HSM file scan logic to prevent recall and re-backup of stub files after file move.

    At Present, when a HSM stub file is moved, a subsequent TSM backup recalls the file and backs this up again. This is a huge problem in large HSM installations and causes significant issues for the administrators supporting the system, and IBM supp...
    almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

    An option to disable unmount mount for bulk selective recalls using multiple file lists from the same tape.

    If you do bulk selective recalls, with multiple file lists coming from the same tape, storage archive unmounts the tape after finishing the list. After starting the new list, the same tape is mounted again. This causes massive delays mounting and ...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 2 Future consideration

    Users should not be able to view every other users' filespaces

    Currently, any authorised user of TSM can view the list of filespaces owned by any other user (provided that user is running on the same platform) by giving the "fromnode" argument to 'query filespace' in dsmc, for instance:> q fi -fromnode="my...
    about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Ransomware Threat Detection for IBM Ceph

    IBM FlashSystem with FCM4 has RTD. Defender has Sensors (in the application file-system). We should have some capabilities to detect and report threats in Ceph as well.
    11 months ago in IBM Storage CEPH 0 Submitted

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