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    Provide a direct download (one time or multi-use) link for Data Collector

    Downloading the Data collector on a workstation and then uploading it to a Linux/AIX/Windows machine is clunky and in some cases slow. Providing a direct link to use native (CURL/WGET/etc.) mechanisms for download directly on the end system would ...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Not under consideration

    Display of Servers --> Maintenance tasks history improvement

    Tasks which run into the next day are shown in the history as running and not finished. The history seems to only check the job in one day. It should check the process id for the finished or aborted status. Also it would be helpful to see the dura...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

    Allow the ability to stop a FlashCopy session (Storage Virtualize Family)

    When managing FlashCopy sessions (not volume group based) from CSM, the only available commands for any given FC session are: Discover Start Flash Restore Terminate surprisingly, the ability of stopping a session is missing. You can terminate it, ...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 4 Not under consideration

    Attach an existing directory to a fileset

    Was discussing root admin with ibm dev Germany and realized that some commands seem never to have finished development. You have two commands one to create a fileset and another to link it to a directory. But the link one requires the directory to...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 7 Not under consideration

    TS7700 - Customer request 3rd or 4th level power redundancy within the frame - critical outage occurred because building power maintenance left the TS7700 running on one PDU and that one failed. Without addtional redundancy, the box came down.

    Critical outage occurred. Building power maintenance being performed turning off one power leg leaving the TS7700 running on one PDU and that one failed. The box ultimately came down, having a 3rd of 4th PDU would've allowed this frame to stay pow...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    To fix the backup issue happening due to the mounted snapshot for FLR

    As of now the backups are failing for the VMs for which the backup snapshots are in mounted state for FLR. There are some critical restore request which takes plenty of time to copy the files (due to size) and we are forced to keep the VM mounted....
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Fix issue causing DRM volumes to be checked out without being updated in DRM

    It is difficult to word a requested problem fix as an RFE, but that is what I've been asked by support to do, so here is my best effort. Use of the “Wait” parameter of the BACKUP STGPOOL command is currently the best option to ensure that disk sto...
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Planned for future release

    Add Direct Access Recovery (DAR) at the directory level for NDMP restores so TSM does not have to scan every backup tape.

    See http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21223572 IBM needs to add support for Direct Access Recovery (DAR) at the directory level for NDMP restores. DAR support exists at the file level. The DAR would allow Tivoli Storage Manager serv...
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Copy Data Management to support FS and Application for the same client

    An Application Server Provider is defined as an application (HANA, System Cache, SQL, Oracle) or File System. Why not both Oracle and File System? for example
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

    FlashDrive - Allowing RCL to continue, rather than halt to perform repair (fail drive/replacement) before continuing.

    This would benefit tremendously as a failure then requires coordination and scheduling to complete, which usually puts us outside our scheduled maintenance window with the potential of not getting another window at that time.
    over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

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