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    Deleted VM expiration by TSM for VE

    The classical implementation of TSM for VE relies on one or multiple Datamover node processing the backups (let's say at least one). A Datamover node is usually not the "master" node, i.e. the datamover node is a proxy node of the main "container"...
    almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

    Change default to Power On VM for clone and production restores

    Restore functionality - Power on VM - Production & clone restore powers on Shouldn't be default to power on as Power On VM was not ticked. Default should be leave powered off unless that option is ticked
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    Schedule upgrading Spectrum Scale Nodes on OpenShift with ibm-spectrum-scale-controller-manager

    We have different OpenShift workers in different MachineConfigPools. Each Pool represents a different client. We want possibility to alter or schedule the upgrade order of spectrum scale nodes of worker pools which are in spectrum scale Cluster (C...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Add Optional Timeout Value for AoS Enablement

    The TSSC home screen has a button that allows a user to Start or Stop AoS. This functionality could benefit from allowing an optional timeout value that would specify the maximum amount of time AoS can remain enabled. This is useful because allowi...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Functionality already exists

    Use seperate TCP port for node replication - preferably only communication initiated from the source server

    When using node replication, it should be possible to specify a seperate TCP port, that can be used for node replication (and the dsmadmc command line should not be able to communicate on this port).From a network security perspective, it is not a...
    about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Detailed License Report - Spectrum Protect Plus

    The license report in SPP is not self-explanatory.Its very easy to get confused on the returned results. It would be a great help, if it was possible to expand the sources, so it was possible to see what VM's and what application instances the res...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Drive preference in a mixed-media library sharing environment

    TSM supports multiple media types in a single library definition. It handles these through media type information reported by the physical library,combined with the drive read and write format lists provided by the drives. Unfortunately, in this c...
    about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

    SPP - offload (copy) or archive a specific version (not only the last one)

    currently, a copy or an archive can be made via scheduler or via "planning" tab.in both cases, only the last version is copied or archived.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    TS7700 - Surface NTP server usage via TS7700 Management Interface

    Wells Fargo has requested that the TS7700 provide a method via the Management Interface that allows them to validate they the Ts7700 is utilizing a NTP server and what the IP address is for that NTP server. NTP is currently activated by the SSR vi...
    over 6 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Not under consideration

    Display grace period of 30 minutes between 2 log collections in task failure message

    When attempting to collect logs from a storage subsystem, a user can received the following message when the task fails: " Uploading system logs for system XXX to ticket TS0123456789. The log package for the device with serial number YYY for ticke...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

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