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    Publish TSM client software via yum repository

    Currently, it's possible to download the latest client-related TSM software packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS at ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/patches/client/v7r1/Linux/LinuxX86/BA/ It would be even better i...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 1 Not under consideration

    Flash/SSDs Wear & Endurance GUI Monitoring

    Urgently requested for Spectrum Storage Insight and Spectrum Virtualize GUI feature enhancement, to include tracking and monitoring of the Flash/SSDs devices on their wear and endurance. Competitors already having such features on their GUI dashbo...
    over 6 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Nodes with retention sets require to have dedicated metadata to be replicated to target server void expiration of data

    Hi Team, i having issue in performance on Source TSM server due to TSM DB size is more than 13TB in size, so my management requested to split current TSM server with Multiple server (2 new TSM server). So by moving Filesystem backup for top 40serv...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Spectrum Scale support for routing over infiniband fabrics

    The current implementation of Spectrum Scale Infiniband networking, does not allow for or support the allocation of GUID for a bonded interface when working with Mellanox's IP2GID tool which is required for configuring IP's for environment with mu...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    TS7700 and IBM Security QRadar support

    From level R5.1 (8.51.0.63), the name of the sender of the logs visible in the IBM Security QRadar software is for example :- LinuxServer @ 00323_78-H9952_ (example of TS7700 unit with the serial number of the 3957-VEx server) - LinuxServer @ Adre...
    over 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

    Add GRID REQUEST Licenced volser Information to the LI REQ command

    Add GRID REQUEST API output to the LI REQ,libname,GRID,REQUEST command so that we can fetch the licences volsers information from z/OS HOST itself.
    almost 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

    Allow REPLICATE NODE against DECOMMissioned nodes

    Customer would like to REPLICATE nodes that are in a DECOMMISIONED status. The reason is to have 2 or 3 copies of archived data, to be maintained for legal reasons for 10 years, currently stored in a dedup container. He wants to create a new repli...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protec for VE Change Last Backup Field in vCenter

    When a VM Backup is done via vcenter after a complete Backup a Note will written to the machines guest note. There is no option to change a specific attribute in the "last backup" field. This would help my customer.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

    Enhance REST API to GET/SET all availabe Filesystem Parameter i.e --auto-inode-limit

    CNSA requires filesystemes with option --auto-inode-limit to be enabled. That Option is currently not available via REST API "get /scalemgmt/v2/filesystems/{filesystemName}". We utilize the REST API to verify all required storage parameter before ...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Protect Replication status

    Currently Spectrum Protect only show in the reports the status of a VM in compliance with replication policy but a person can not tell the % outstanding to replicate and or the % completed this makes reporting on the environment status much harder...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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