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    HW Snapshot support in SPP for DellEMC Compellent

    Customer is running a PoC on SPP and part of the PoC are support for HW snapshot. Customer is using DellEMC Compellent hardware for most VMs. Customer also use vPlex+VNXe for mission critical VMs.
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    Password Expiration Warning

    Having a warning that the password used to log into the storage would alert users in advance and could proactively manage their passwords.
    about 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Not under consideration

    File-level restore option in TSM4VE with Cloud - Container Storage Pool

    Ref : PMR 79682,070,724As per technote http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21659833 when using combination of TSM4VE and cloud container storage pool , the option of file level restore is not there.File level restore always needed , b...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

    Automated Rerun of TSM Schedules

    I propose that additional client schedule options are added to customise the behaviour and reporting of the backup success.<br /><br />This would be achieved by adding an option to automatically re-run the backup as a whole a number of...
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

    Better handling of events when schedules overlap

    When a node is busy with a long-running schedule, several schedules for the same node might be missed - for example when having hourly incremental backups, and a full backup is running.It would be desirable, if the TSM server could "bypass" these ...
    about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    SIP & SC: allow wildcards in the exclude list for storage reclamation

    Storage Insights for Spectrum Control environment: "Reclaim storage" is useful, but customers need more handle on the exclude list. Now they can exclude volumes from the reclaim storage list, but customer wants to exclude certain partial volume na...
    almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

    Enhance RAS to add a mmhealth threshold update Funktion in mmhealth framework

    Currently to change a parameter in the mmhealth thresholds this is only possible with delete and add this same rule. This is error-prone to change only on parameter.The support enhance the servicability to justify one parameter in the threshold ru...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    mmauth grant should also work for already mounted clusters

    mmauth grant ... -a ro requires a remount on the remote side (which is not documented, BTW). This is a problem as the remote cluster may not be controlled by you.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Change QUERY OCCUPANCY to show the number of files backed up for each node/filespace in a directory container storage pool.

    Currently QUERY OCCUPANCY returns the number of 10GB fragments associated with each file/object. So if a file is 54GB in size it will report this under QUERY OCCUPANCY six files; where five fragments occupy 10GB, and one as 4GB. As a customer the ...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    allow VM exclusion via tagging in Spectrum Protect Plus

    please add the capability to exclude VMs based upon specific vSphere Tags, in addition to the ability to include via tagging.
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

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