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    Detailed progress screen for cloud offload and replication operations.

    On the Spectrum Protect Plus backup screen, we can see detailed information about the backed up machines and the process in the progress section.But we cannot see detailed information during replication and cloud offload operations.Replication and...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    Recommision node / reverting decommission node command

    Implementing a recommission node command to stop the decommission node process without restoring database.
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    Inclusion of a REST API to interface with the TS7700 MI

    Add a REST API to the TS7700 MI to gather operational and performance statistics.
    over 7 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect for VE - "Wrong" Platform Name for Node using SP BA Client on Datamover server

    When we use Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environment to back VMWare Virtual Machines we have "Spectrum Protect for VE" and "Spectrum Protect BA client" installed on the same machine. To backup VMs we create Data Mover node name DATAMOVER_NAME . Th...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    distributed "lsof" or "fuser"?

    Currently, there is no way of getting information on open files/directories per device/fileset/subdirectory on any node. The option to run "mmdsh -N all lsof /my/path/to/fileset" isn't really feasible on large clusters. As a distributed file syste...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    CES NFS - disable NFS export (but keep in config)

    When having maintenance on larger file systems, it's advisable to first do a clean shutdown, and then enable maintenance mode with mmchfs --maintenance-mode to avoid anyone mounting or processes messing with the file system. This is quite problema...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    Logging and audit of svcinfo commands

    My customer tested the remote support for their new FS9200 that they are deploying in their datacenter and they wanted to make sure that the commands executed by remote support when accessing the FS9200 via remotesupport proxy were being logged an...
    almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

    Tape libraries (TS4500, TS4300, TS3200, TS3310, and TS3500) to use DNS name for encryption servers instead of IP

    Tape libraries (TS4500, TS4300, TS3200, TS3310, and TS3500) use IP for encryption server and we would like tape libraries to use DNS name so that it is transparent when IP changes on SKLM servers.
    almost 5 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    Add vSnap Utilisation to the 'Protected VMs Report'

    There is not currently an option within SPP to show how much capacity a particular VM is using on the vSnap Storage. This could be displayed either in the vSnap Utilisation Report, or the Protected VMs report.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    Avoid restore from copy pool when primary pool is of type VTL

    Currently, when backup data is stored in both a primary and a copy pool, TSM restores this data from the pool where the data is located on less tapes. The disadvantage of this method: When using a VTL for the primary pool and physical tape for the...
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

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