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Notification of events related to the temperature of SVC cluster nodes in the Storage Management (GUI).

We need to view on the Storage Management or a event log, the events related with the temperature threshold of the SVC nodes.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

SVC Snaps - customer related info

SVC Snaps contains data such as IP , host names .customer request to remove the sensitive data from snaps
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Import existing hardware copy services relationships directly by CSM

Customer is using DSCLI to manage Copy Services relationships and now they want to migrate the existing CS relationships to CSM, but customer have a lot of DS8Ks and CS relationships, it's not easy and time consuming to do it manually, we also tri...
over 7 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Image encryption

By not allowing a image backup to be encrypted a potential security breach may arise. The particular situation is that a few files in a filesystem are encrypted. A image backup will negate that as it stores all files/blocks and all files will be r...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

TSM Server version history

Sometimes it is necessary to known what time you did run which version on your TSM server. For example when you may affected by an APAR(IC71049) which should be fixed in the current version you are running, but you still have older volumes affecte...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Planned for future release

FlashCopy Manager for VMware - GPFS Support

FlashCopy Manager for VMware - GPFS Support Customer thinks about integrating GPFS as VMware storage layer. Additionally, FlashCopy Manager for VMware should be used to backup / recover the environemnt. Today, GPFS is only supported for FCM for UN...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

add scsi addressing in INCLUDE.VMDISK parameter

Description of the problem:Our policy should be to make only an image VMbackup with TSM for VE of only the OS-disk. Making VMbackups of the data-disks with TSM for VE should not be allowed.For 91% of the VM's (+/-4200 VM's) , the OS disk with SCSI...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

check computability of Line tape version 3 .0.60 VS Kernel 3.10.0-1160.25.1.el7.x86_64 , 3.10.0-1160.el7.x86_64 OS RHEL 7.9

Hi Team as advised by PFE Ref to case TS011516098 to open RPQ Ref to old case TS006661327 Devlopment and PFE advised to upgrade from line tape 3.0.56-1.x86_64 to line tape version 3.0.60 in the coming PMN to overcome issue of CPU hang /TSM server ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

Allow clusters in TS7700 grid to have a local NTP source

Allow Each VTS within a TS7700 cluster to source it's time independently to avoid call -homes when their are WAN issues.
over 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Future consideration

Exchange 2013 support with TSM

Target date to support Exchange 2013 with TSM for Mail
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Planned for future release

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