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    Dedupstats continuous update

    Having an option to enable background updating of dedupstats is preferred to running 'update dedupstats *' every day. 'update dedupstats' should only have to be run if information in dedupstats has become inconsistent.This could be a background pr...
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    2 TB Backup Limit in TSM for VE

    Error: ANS2236I message disks that exceed the 2 TB maximum size limit.
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

    Development team need to test the higher HBA drivers and Firmware levels to support TS4300 Tape library

    Problem Statement: TS4300 Tape Library not detected from Windows 2019 OS end. Components Involved: Emulex LPe31000 HBA card and TS4300 Tape Library. Installed HBA card drivers version is : 14.0.376.10 Firmware : 12.8.351.7-11. As per the IBM Syste...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    more control over hiding snapshot dirs / extend mmsnapdir

    There seems to be no way to get rid of the .snapshots subdir in the root of indendepent snapshots. This is a problem when mirroring data using rsync. Because we do not want to rsync snapshots we need to exclude them. But for correct mirroring we a...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

    speed up backup stgpool for file pools with dataformat=nonblock

    On a SP server, we have lots of data from a CM8 environment, e.g. very many small files. About half of it from ICC and the other half from d3. 99% of this data is stored in FILE pools with DATAFORMAT=NONBLOCK because otherwise SP would cause a sto...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

    prevent uneccessary recalls / improve DMAPI support with snapshots

    [ this an an idea for the DMAPI part of GPFS when working with Spectrum Protect for Space Management ] We suggest to improve the DMAPI handling code in GPFS to detect when premigrated files that are part of a snapshot and the orignal files is migr...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Allow VDI timeout to be user controlled (SP for MSSQL, legacy backups)

    When using Spectrum Protect's data protection for MSSQL (legacy backups), there is a hardcoded timeout limit for the TDP to wait for the availability of the VDI. Currently this is set to 60 seconds, and can only be observed by tracing the TDP oper...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Future consideration

    On install OC accept unaccepted characters in the password , installation fails later on.

    On install of Operations Center one is requested to enter a password, a list of special character is listed however the installer at this point do not check if the password I enter is valid. The installation continues but hangs later on installing...
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Bind management classes according to file size

    Currently management classes are assigned by the backup archive client and are based solely on directories names and/or files names.In some cases, it might be better to assign a management class to a file size range.
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

    Vsnaps with several interfaces.

    We have two ethernet networks one 10GB and the other 1GB. The Vmware env has the two networks and Oracle has only 1GB. If I configure the Vsnap with both networks it uses 1GB for Vmware where we have 10 and 1 GB Ethetnet network, I would like to k...
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

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