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New combination in SSIC for storage 2145-DH8

We require new Host and storage combination to be tested as the same combination is not reflecting in SSIC.
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Allow custom configuration of Spectrum Scale scanner

Allow the specification of Spectrum Scale "mmapplypolicy" command details to tailor the scanning granularity for Spectrum Discover. E.g. do not scan snapshots by e.g. not scanning the .mmsnapshot directory.
over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Not under consideration

Qumulo SMB backup API integration

Integration with Qumulo API to eliminate the long/timely treewalk to see which files/folders have changed.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

fuser is missing in ESS deployment on ESS3200

opened corresponding issue No: 277001 customer needs fuser reason .. mmumounting file system may give you a hard time figuring out, who is using a mounted SG
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

Avoid restore from copy pool when primary pool is of type VTL

Currently, when backup data is stored in both a primary and a copy pool, TSM restores this data from the pool where the data is located on less tapes. The disadvantage of this method: When using a VTL for the primary pool and physical tape for the...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

File restore GUI: Microsoft Windows user account cannot access its own user folders

When using File Restore GUI to restore single files to a Windows vm you get an access denied error when trying to restore files and folders protected by UAC. This can be profile folders (C:\Users) or the DATA folder in a SQL instance. The problem ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Extend DEEP INSPECT model (SDK and Appliance) to allow user to send metadata to the application.

Today, one can create a Discover deep-inspect agent/application that executes operations on a Scale file system. As an example, there is an application available on github to collect the Scale user-defined attribute and assign it to a Discover tag...
over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

Chargeback use case - more generally, Enable policies to create/define metadata using arithmetic expressions.

In summary, customers want to be able to perform arithmetic expressions and, if possible, leverage db2wh functions when defining policy to assign value to a tag. For example, customer wants to assign chargeback amount to a tag, "cost" as follows:c...
over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Planned for future release

Tape management in Operations Center

Using the TSM Operations Center - manage tape. Checkin, checkout, volume occupancy.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Add considerations for worklaods with large transfer sizes to Compresstimator

Clients rely on the results of the "compresstimator" tooling to understand whether volumes may be good candidates for Realtime Compression or not. This guidance is focused on the expected compression ratio. However, the performance of largely sequ...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

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