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    TSM Script Editing feature that was in the Administration Center to be in Operations Center

    would like the TSM Script Editing feature that was in the Administration Center to be in Operations Center.The Admin Center Script editor was pretty “low function”, but at least it allowed changes and cut and paste. And it had a nice syntax checki...
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    Allow SLA jobs to be run only by external tools rather than the SPP scheduler

    We have had a number of customers wanting to running SPP SLA jobs via other tools. Currently you are able to run an existing SLA job by the RestAPI but only if it is already scheduled to run via the SPP scheduler. If you hold the SLA job you are u...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    backup individiual vm within current sla

    We would like to see the ability to restart/retry failed vm's within an SLA without running the complete SLA.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    GUI should schedule daily policy runs

    Customers often needs to run a set of policies on filesystems as daily maintenance. F.ex.: * Compress files * Migrate new files from primary to secondary pool * Premigrate data to tape/cloud/external pool, so that when a capacity-based trigger can...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    The result of DSCLI command showckdvol is too slow. Related to TS010511348.

    To find out which SafeGuarded Copy page is used, we need to issue showckdvol commands on each volume. We have many volumes and each order takes a long time (sometimes more than a minute). How to have a better response time on this order? This idea...
    about 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

    Agregate messages on DS8000's HMC. Related to TS010580871.

    On the HMC of DS8000, some messages appear several hundred times (1 message per volume). Would it be possible to combine these messages into a generic message? And to allow them to be seen by unfolding the generic message (example by clicking on +...
    about 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

    FTP and HTTP CES support

    Support FTP and HTTP access on CES protocol nodes.
    over 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

    Allow user to append a comment svctask commands

    This is to allow user to optional add a comment to svctask command in order to provide an indication or refer to a change number when making changes to Spectrum Virtualise.This would also be captured in the audit log.
    over 9 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Raising iSER sessions to 1024 per node

    PayPal/GoPay purchased some 9200s for a large VMware environment with iSER connectivity, and we hit the 256 session limitation per controller. We desperately need to increase the iSer sessions from 256 to 1024 per controller. The iSER cards are co...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    FCM for VMware: Support for multiple vCenters

    Today (v.4.1.2) FCM for VMware can be connected to one vCenter only. This implies that clients have to deploy one FCM for Vmware installation for each vCenter. This RFE is to support multiple vCenter with only one FCM for VMware installation.
    over 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

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