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Allow for separation of client services from storage services

Allow for the optional separation of the gpfs mmfsd process into a client process mmfscd independent of the gpfs storage process mmfssd. When something goes wrong with I/O subsystem in one node the applications on that node should still be able to...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

FCM - Managing Multiple SQL instances from one console

There are 2 instances of SQL which have been configured with 2 separate optfiles as per the old standard however the Flashcopy manager gui defaults to use the dsm.opt file in c:\program files\tivoli\tsm\tdpsql folder. We need to have separate shor...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Planned for future release

Spectrum Copy Data Managment: SAP HANA (system) connectivity should support SSH keys

As of today SCDM needs "user/password" credentials for its SAP HANA (system) connectivity. As this a security risk (and not allowed at our company anymore) the product should support SSH keys as system credentials. Since SCDM already has this for ...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Support for spanning logical volumes on TS7770 with zTape Air-Gap Tape Exporter (FC5995)

A customer owns a solution for some of his backup jobs based on old native tape drives C07 / TS1140 whose End of Service already passed.  We’d like to replace it with a TS7770 with zTape Air-Gap Tape Exporter (FC5995) – which is a TS7770...
about 2 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1

Oracle ACFS

Requesting that TSM support the backup of Oracle ACFS data. Thank you for your time,Brian
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Allow allocation of a cross-library dedicated cleaning slot without wasting 5unit slot

Allow allocation of a cross-library dedicated cleaning slot (shared by all libs/tapes) without wasting 5unit slot. Generically, and possibly, allow also for logical libraries to be partitioned using an atomic unit less than 5slot (i.e. single slots).
about 4 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 0 Future consideration

SPP integration n the IBM Resiliency Orchestration tools (IRO/CRO)

We have an urgent request from a Bank in Spain in UK to have IBM SPP integrated in the IBM Resiliency Orchestration tools (IRO/CRO) We heard that there are plans fro Q3 2019 but the customer will not accept this and wants the integration to happen...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Avoid un-necessary audit logging for ls/mmlsattr/ILM list policy.

ls/mmlsattr/ILM list POLICY are creating OPEN event logs. AFAIK, these actions doesn't open the file only read the metadata of a file, generating the audit logs on these kinda operations is creating lot of audit logs for us. It's mentioned in doc,...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

TSM needs to stop trying to load the same tape media to the same drive after hundreds of failures with ANR8944E and ANR8359E.

on 11/03/14 during a tape pool reclamation, 721 counts of "ANR8944E..." messages from "05:52:58" to "06:28:28" for volume I41079 and TKLI4-DR6 were received by TSM server. See blow:11/03/14 05:52:58 ANR8944E Hardware or media error on drive TKLI4-...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Change in DB/View structure for Proxy agent/target and nodegroup/node relations

Have relational information between nodes/nodegroups - and proxy-agents/targets stored in tables (or presented in views) - instead of comma-seperated lists.
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

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