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SSH ACCESS

Could you please provide SSH access in order to automatize some operations like backup of the conf ?
over 1 year ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Not under consideration

TRUE GUI

Why the GUI has a limited window size ? When it will be modern ?
over 1 year ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Not under consideration

Increase tagname character limit from 32 to 64 characters or more

We are using Spectrum Discover in a research and academia environment. Whenlooking towards how we will curate and manage tags as the number of includedprojects grows, we see that the tagname limit of 32 characters is a problem.When extracting exif...
over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Future consideration

DSCLI does not have any PPRC validation

While trying to initialize disks with ICKDSF, all defined address failed in Extended Long Busy state after a DSCLI configuration change on MGM defined sessions.The change was done on SSID definition and it did not follow correct definition rules s...
about 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

The enhancement of the status of the backup job on the TSM Operations Center

System: TSM Operations Center(OC)Actor: The user who wants to check the status of the backup job on the TSM OC. The TSM OC is a new console of Tivoli Storage Manager. Description: When we run the backup commands (jobs) using the TSM B/A client (CL...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

VTS db2 reorg planning change

VTS db2 reorg is statically planned. Due to client activity changes, it comes a time where reorg is planned during high VTS activity and then does not end within the required amount of time. Reorg may not be effective until many weeks. As of today...
over 6 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Skip recall when files are open()ed with O_TRUNC

Adding this feature it would prevent many unnecessary recalls. As recalls from tape are an expensive operation it would improve the performance of the filesystem.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Future consideration

Ability to encrypt and store dsmadmc user credentials in a local file

By default the TSM baclient encrypts node user credentials in a locally stored file. Unfortunately this functionality is not present with admin user credentials when using the Admin Client (dsmadmc). In order to automate dsmadmc commands within sc...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Allow replication processing of data on sequential tape media to use more than one mountpoint/session per node/filespace

Allow replication processing of data on sequential tape media to use more than one mountpoint/session per node/filespace.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

enhance security control in Kerberos based NFS to enable changes of Group / User during TGT Renewal time

Ganesha NFS uses Kerberos Tickets PAC to map user access control. This PAC ic valid as long as the Ticket is valid. If the user gets changed for any urgent reasons, this is realized only when TGT is invalidated and a new TGT is provided.In many ca...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration