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    TSM for Virtual Environment Linux file level restore improvement

    Almost all customers and partners complains about the complexity and the difficulty to perform Linux file level recovery with TSM for Virtual Environment. They need a simplified recovery procedure (with or without i-SCSI) to access to a volume for...
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Planned for future release

    Backup of Shared VHDX and Shared VHDX in a set

    would like the ability of backing up Hyper-V VM's using SPP when they are configured with Shared VHDX and/or Shared VHDX in a Set.
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    SPP - Sort lists / Provide user ability to sort

    Lists in the user interface are not sorted: vSnap servers, VADP servers, SLAs when assigning an SLA to a VM, etc. All lists should be sorted by default and should also provide the user the ability to click any column to sort by that column.
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    TS4500 multipath support for RoCE drives

    TS4500 supports TS1160-E drives with RoCE enabled however multipath and path fail-over is not supported when using Ethernet devices. The library and lin_taped support multipath for FC, RoCE is supposed to allow leverage of Ethernet environment how...
    over 4 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

    Make usage time series information available via the Spectrum Scale API

    The Spectrum Scale Management GUI has time series information available for GPFS file systems and filesets. This information includes (but is not limited to) the change in block usage (i.e. how much space used) and change in inode usage. However t...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Functionality already exists

    Match field names in UI and REST API

    In working with the REST API and spectrum discovers UI side-by-side,we've come across a couple of differences between the two. Specifically, for policy creation the UI requires a "Policy type", while the API requires and "action_id".Additionally, ...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Planned for future release

    CSM TOCHECK ON HDS HYPERSWAP that a copy destination of 1 LCU does not come from more than 4 source LCUs

    CSM team confirmed that per current design there is a check made by CSM that one source LCU has no more than 4 target, but there is not a check made into the opposite direction that a copy destination of 1 LCU does not come from more than 4 source...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

    update ffdc to gather more information

    Please enhance "ffdc ALL" to gather all logfiles that are needed by IBM support and development.Currently there are several debug logs not included that require support staff to request with instructions.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

    Do not register mount proxy nodes in configuration wizard

    After installation, the Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments GUI needs to be configured. URL: https://localhost:9081/TsmVMwareUI/ If the GUI is called for the first time, the Configuration Wizard automatically starts. At the definition of the...
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    Tool to reset damaged files without "audit volume"

    Sometimes there is some error condition while the TSM server is reading a tape (tape failure, drive failure, network failure, other). In many of these cases, the TSM server marks the files it could not read as "damaged". The standard way of making...
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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