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    No storage for client transaction

    The customer wants to know if it is possible to get a request for improvement started so that TSM B-A clients will handle this problem file more elegantly, without blowing up server storage? We added a few hundred Unix servers to ECS (object stora...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    IBM SPP vSnap availability in AWS EU (Stockholm) Region

    IBM SPP vSnap is now available in AWS marketplace for deployment but it doesn't list AWS EU (Stockholm) Region yet.It is important to have vSnap in this region for adaption to SPP and not choosing other solution.Due to workload in AWS EU (Stockhol...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    decommission of a node or vm requires system level privilege

    When decommissioning a node or VM – even if the user is the node owner they cannot decommission it. To decommission anything you have to have system level privileges. Yes, this is an issue as we have to provide elevated permissions to contractors ...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

    SNMP monitoring fileset quota (block/files)

    Customer want to monitor via SNMP all the alerts that the system can generate like:fileset quota block (soft/hard)fileset quota files (soft/hard)Storage Pool Metadata block/inodes Storage Poo Data block/inodesand all other event that the system is...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale System 0 Under review

    Quota management delegation

    I was discussing removal of root use for commands with ibm dev Germany and this came up. Need the ability to delegate quota management to different groups of users on large scale file systems. You can have different admins for different teams resp...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    More flexible cache options on Storwize

    The caching algorithm does not have enough flexibility in assigning cache to storage pools. I would like to see selectable options: 1) Current (equal percent across storage pools) 2) Percentage based on amount of storage in the storage pool vs ove...
    over 9 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

    Compress files on initial placement

    V5 Functionality. Allow a file placement policy to specify compression. The fast compression library combined with the compressed data write will be faster than the time taken to write the uncompressed data to disk and the same for reading. So the...
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

    NDMP to TSM-Server (NAS filer to server) - enable simultaneous write

    NDMP data transfers from NSeries (Netapp) Filers over TCP/IP (NAS to TSM Server Storage) currently does not support simultaneous write into primary and copy storage pools. It seems that the autocopy function is ignoring NDMP/TCP-IP data during ing...
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    TSM for VE - Enhancement to allow Graceful or Forceful cancellation of a running VE Backup Schedule

    Freddie Mac is a very strong user of TSM for VE, protecting over 4000 VMs in their environment using TSM for VE 7.1.4 version currently in production. They need more granular control over Running VE Schedules to be able to stop them either gracefu...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

    FCM for VMware: Linux In-Guest Application Consistency

    This enhancement request describes an important and very customer relevant improvement of the backup mechanisms of Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments (TSMfVE) and Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager (FCMfVE). The existing support to gene...
    about 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

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