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Allow snapdiff backups of NetApp CIFS volumes containing widelinks

TSM uses NetUseEnum() to determine if a NetApp CIFS share is connected before attempting a snapdiff backup. When run on a NetApp CIFS volume with widelinks, it results in the following error: ANS2831E: Incremental by snapshot difference cannot be ...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

ESS (GL6S) Temperature sensor failures require outage

The temperature sensor on the 4U106 Storage Enclosure is part of the chassis and can't be replaced online; it is necessary to take the entire enclosure offline in order to replace a failed one, resulting in an outage.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Not under consideration

LNET router equivalent for GPFS

Support LNET routers for GPFS to allow GPFS NSD servers to be connected to multiple disparate high speed fabrics without needing to directly place the NSD server on each fabric. Ideally the router would have as little state as possible and there w...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

SSD Cache for Archive backup extraction

we are using SP as a backup repository in order to archive backups from SPP to tape. during archive backup. the data is compress at the vsnap, stored to colddatacache pool and then migrated to tape on the SP server. the restoration process is the ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Under review

Increase TS3000 TSSC password to more than the 16 character limit

Passwords are increasing in the length. Our firm requires a minimum 16 character password as a standard. The TSSC webUI seems to have a 16 character limit whereas the TS7700 webUI supports longer passwords. We use LDAP and a single signon methodol...
over 2 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Planned for future release

Filter for Backup, Replication and Copy in GUI

Under Job History in the SPP GUI it would be helpful to be able to filter by job job type. Example: Backup, Replication or Copy. This would make it much easier to search for specific jobs.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

VADP Proxy load statistics dashboard

Add dashboard that shows load per per proxy (and # of tasks executed) per exectured SLA. Provide more system performance info; Are all proxy's used?, are proxys rightly scaled? are all jobs active etc.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

When looking for PII in a file, storage fusion catalog only detects the first instance of the PII element and stores it in a database as opposed to storing all PII elements in a file.

1. Problem: When looking for PII in a file, storage fusion catalog only detects the first instance of the PII element and stores it in a database as opposed to storing all PII elements in a file. For example, consider a pdf file (fileA.pdf) that h...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Detect additional types of PII using Watson NLP/ Watsonx.data integration for Storage Fusion Catalog

Detect additional types of PII using Watson NLP/ Watsonx.data integration for Storage Fusion Catalog. Problem Statement: Today Storage Fusion Catalog has regular expression (regex) pattern matching capability to detect PII in unstructured data. Wh...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

DS8000 extensive FlashCopy in a MTMM / GDPS environment

Customer has Mainframe with GDPS and MTMM running in his environment. They want to use their LinuxOne system (Linux ion z hardware) for DB2 Datawarehouse and also want to integrate this environment into the GDPS construct. (LinuxOne with eCKD Volu...
over 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration