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    Remote Cloning support for ProtecTIER native replication setups (will also work for all alternatively replicated data)

    Implement support for Remote Cloning of "alternatively" replicated data. This request ist written with having IBM ProtecTIER native replication in mind.Implement some kind of "single domain behaviour" into TSM to have a TSM storage agent running o...
    about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 6 Not under consideration

    fine-grained performance monitoring for protocol

    The customer raised this requirement in their workshop in 2018:1. for protocol/NFS, PingAn could monitor the throughput of each exported points. PingAn raised the request to monitor the throughput from each clients to see which client is taking mo...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Enhance mmfindinode Performance and Provide SDK API for Path Query by Inode

    This RFE requests enhancements to the mmfindinode utility in the GPFS/Spectrum Scale filesystem to significantly improve its performance. Additionally, it proposes the development of an SDK API that allows querying file paths based on inode number...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    Add "Warning" to VM Backup History Report

    Add "Warning" to List of Status Parameters in VM Backup History Report.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Improved Monitoring of the Defined Premigration Threshold Limits of a CPx Partition on the TS7760

    The IBM TS7700 hardware provides the possibility to start pre-migration in one or more CPx partitions when the Premigration threshold defined in the TS7760 is reached. This premigration may start at any point in time, whenever the threshold is rea...
    over 5 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Change of communication for instant mount/instant full restore for TSM4VE

    When using Instant Mount or Instant Full Restore in TSM4VE, all communication should be initiated from the client towards the server.Currently, traffic will be initiated from the TSM server towards the vStorage backup server on TCP ports 1501 and/...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

    Support of custom tolerations for Fusion base, backup services and non-core services

    Reduce VPC requirements on worker nodes, reducing cost of CPK and OCP licenses allowing base & backup services to run on infra-nodes
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    CSM - Automatically Synchronise Standby Server Sessions After IPL.

    We have two DS8000 Controllers in a full MM - Hyperswap Configuration. We have two CSM Sessions running on two different LPARS in our SYSPLEX. ( LPAR1 (Primary ) and LPAR2 (Standby) ) We observe that after IPL of the LPAR2 ( Configured as the Stan...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Not under consideration

    Admin User Creation Segregation of Duty

    Due to enhanced security requirements the customer would like to have a segregation of duty for the creation of admin users. The possibility of creating new admin users and granting them system authority should be removed from the admin/system aut...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Send actlog to a remote syslog, a central loghost

    There is a possibility to program userexit/fileexit to use syslog. But, the nativ support of remote syslog is needed as a standard solution. Send all entries that goes to actlog to remote syslog as a single line.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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