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Spectrum Protect (TSM) "What's New" Operations Center Feed

Spectrum Protect customers often are unaware when new versions of the solution are released and what relevant new features are added. This often causes issues as the applications and software they are protecting continues to update and requires sp...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

CSM - Automatically Synchronise Standby Server Sessions After IPL.

We have two DS8000 Controllers in a full MM - Hyperswap Configuration. We have two CSM Sessions running on two different LPARS in our SYSPLEX. ( LPAR1 (Primary ) and LPAR2 (Standby) ) We observe that after IPL of the LPAR2 ( Configured as the Stan...
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Not under consideration

TDP for MS SQL FCM GUI Customization

The way information is displayed in the FCM GUI interface, restore tab, is cumbersome to use, especially when dealing with multiple instances. We should be able to customize the column layout, and sort on multiple columns.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect: Task Time Preview and Progress Indicators

There are currently no preview or progress indicators for server and client related tasks. It would be good to get an indication of how long a task will take before kicking it off as well as an indication of how much time is still remaining for th...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Support of UEFI Boot Mode for VMs

Lack of Support - IBM Storage Support for Microsoft VSS VDS IBM Storage Support for Microsoft VSS VDS does only recognize a VMware VM as a VM when this VM was booted in BIOS-Mode. A VM booted in UEFI-Mode will not recognized as a VM.
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Increase SMB Share Limit in Scale Cluster

The current Limitations for Spectrum Scale SMB are listed as follows: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/STXKQY_5.0.5/com.ibm.spectrum.scale.v5r05.doc/bl1ins_smbclients.htm "Spectrum Scale can host a maximum of 1000 SMB shares" needs t...
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

support pools of varying block sizes in a single filesystem (as well as > 32 subblocks)

Support differing block sizes for different pools within a given filesystem (allowing for >32 subblocks on new pools created within existing filesystems created prior to scale 5.0).
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

More flexibility in assigning rights to administrators

In large/complex environments with multiple people having administrative access to the Spectrum Protect server, it is desirable to be able to have better granularity on the rights assigned to each person/login or group. This is in order to be able...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

SP for VE: Remove or increase 8TB size VMware virtual machine disks limit

To be able to protect large VMware vmdk files using Spectrum Protect fot Virtual Environments, can the limit on vmmaxvirtualdisks option be increased or removed?
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Make the time interval for "ANR3654W Inventory file expiration processing did not run in the previous 24 hours" configurable

The message ANR3654W is shown even if an expire inventory schedule was executed every day at 4pm, because the detailed time frame including seconds is checked for the message. The request is either check not on detailed second (maybe a minute or 5...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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