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    allow FCM to more granularly control message output

    We need the ability to suppress the message IWNRF015I when needed.The PDEBUG variable value currently has non effect on the setting of "show_dups" variable and this leads to hundreds of unwanted messages on the screen during the SEL-SOURCE and the...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Support for EMC ISLON

    My customer uses Control to manager all devices and they adquire an EMC Islon that has all user files. They requested our support to homologate monitoring for this storage under Control
    almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Planned for future release

    Add LTFS EE support to Ceph based Distributed File System

    A lot of cold data in Ceph based DFS need to migrate to Tape. The existing solution is backup/archive with backup software or put data via S3 interface to S3 based deep archive solution which is very complicated,no automation and no competitive pr...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Not under consideration

    SVC-Allocated Core (CPU) per volume

    Hi, Our customer need to have the following feature (available at competition): To monitor Core (CPU) usage by Volume and info on percentage used.
    over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

    Enhance the Backup Archive Clients to enable restore of metadata, specifically permissions, without restoring the data

    Primarily on UNIX/Linux operating systems it is a common human error to change filesystem permissions (on directories and files) incorrectly, too broadly and the changes can be difficult or even impossible to correct back to the original permissio...
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

    Improve Function of TDP for Oracle to be a more effective MediaManager

    When Oracle RMAN begins a restore it apparently asks the MediaManager for all the volumes that will be needed to restore all the 'pieces' of the backup. On a long-running restore, in the time between the restore starting and it getting to any spec...
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

    Usage of DS8000 Client certificate to eliminate stored password within MCDS.

    Usage of DS8000 Client certificate to eliminate stored password within MCDS. We basically looking to eliminate the need to store any Passwords even though it may be encrypted.
    almost 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

    Glacier on TSM - IBM Spectrum Protect

    Data restoration from Glacier using TSM Client manager.
    about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 1 Not under consideration

    Support for TSM USS Client

    System: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for z/OS USS Client and API (5698-B22)Actor: ITERGO Informationstechnologie TSM B/A is a standard product spreaded over all different kinds of operating systems. For z/OS, TSM USS Client is used to backup and res...
    about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Protect - Add functionality to the deactivate data command

    Expand the deactivate data command to apply to other clients besides Oracle. It is urgently needed for SQL backup clients. The deactivate data command should be expanded to work on SQL, DB2, Informix, and all other API-style backup products.
    about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

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