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SNMPv3 support in GPFS GUI

Morgan Stanley is asking for upgrade to SNMPv3 (GPFS GUI alerts)
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Dump of login information (auditlog) from the Spectrum Protect Plus application to monitor it in Rsyslog

Hi, we have enabled the Rsyslog, to monitor the accesses (login) to the Spectrum protect Plus, for the Linux server we already have it working, but for the login in the application there is no option, since this information is only in the GUI, and...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Different retention policies (Time) for SAP HANA Backup

customers wants to use of existing SAP HANA backup data to satisfy business needs for weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly data collections without using different nodes for the identical machine
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Not under consideration

ODBC Enhancements for TSM 6.3

To enable access to data from the TSM Database, TSM until Version 5 enabledODBC using a TSM administrative user with limited authority. Since TSM6,ODBC is via the DB2 ODBC connect.The TSM ODBC connect documentation only describes TSM ODBC access u...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Pre-Requisites Check Script

In order to consider and check all points on the pre-requisite checklist for FCM on Unix, Linux a checking utility would ease the work a lot. Currently, the checklist is very complex and not all of the points are directly clear. Some points refer ...
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Planned for future release

Time Machine over SMB

Since the last OSX release, Apple has deprecated they're "AFP" protocol and want to use SMB for everything, TimeMachine included.In order to have a SMB share working with TimeMachine, it need to complain some specs. Here are the specs: https://dev...
about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Extend "deactivate data" to other applications, not only limited to Oracle

Currently, the "deactivate data" command is limited to Oracle data. It should be expanded to include the other application data such as DB2, SQL, etc. Also add the filespace option to the command.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Control not capturing real time hardware failures from DS8800

we noticed our installed spectrum control isn't capturing real time failures from our enrolled IBM DS8k storage systems. cable and drive failures are not captured. kindly help optimize this so we can easily monitor our storages from the spectrum c...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

Spectrum Protect client using port 9081, same as BigFix

The new tsm client 8.1.7+ is using default port 9081 for file level restore operations via web.The problem is that is the same port as tsm4ve and the same port as bigfix. IBM should not release different products using the same default port. One o...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Centralized reporting for Tivoli FlashCopy Manager

We would like to request a centralized reporting facility for Tivoli FlashCopy Manager, specifically FlashCopy Manager for Exchange 2010 first, if possible (although all applications managed by FCM would benefit). This reporting facility would be ...
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

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