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Most Expedient Full Datacenter Restore from Cloud

The copy to cloud offload feature is used generally as a secondary backup after the initial backup on vSnap and a secondary backup to a vSnap at another site. During the backup process, the changed blocks from the last snapshot are uploaded to the...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under 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

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

Do whole-file allocation for FILE scratch volumes too

According to the TSM Performance documentation at:http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v6r4/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.itsm.perf.doc%2Fr_ptg_sysfragfile.htmlthe TSM server utilizes OS functions to allocate space for volumes when preallocating...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

TSM Auto-Deploy/OC and roadmap for ability to Custom Install Package

We are looking for the ability to add a custom installable component like "TSM Web Client" to an auto-deploy upgrade.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Compress files on initial placement

V5 Functionality. Allow a file placement policy to specify compression. The fast compression library combined with the compressed data write will be faster than the time taken to write the uncompressed data to disk and the same for reading. So the...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

Synchronize policy information to another SP server

There is a Spectrum Protect environment with 2 Spectrum Protect servers. Server A is the primary server to which the SP clients connect to, which stores alll SP client data in first place, and on which all SP client node information, associations ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

You should be able to configure notification of user password expiration.

A frequent problem I have is that the ESS GUI user accounts expire and I have to get them reset. It would be useful if you could set up e-mail notifications that an account is about to expire. My organization does this .... when my password is wit...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

Embedded DSCLI should support file access

Ability to use the DSCLI for commands that are currently not supported. The latest one is our attempt to establish an SSL connection between the DS8950F and TS7700. We were unable to do it in the embedded DSCLI as the file certificates (root &...
about 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

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