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    backup and restore to windows cifs share without explicitly using net use

    Currently in order to backup a windows cifs share, to do a snapdiff or otherwise, you need to issue a "net use" as a pre command to a scheduled backup. This is an extra step in configuration/scripting that shouldn't be necessary. This also makes i...
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Not under consideration

    Change nodenames for SP for Hyper-V during installation

    Please make it possible to be able to change nodenames for the Hyper-V nodes when installing Spectrum Protect for Hyper-V
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Future consideration

    DS8000 Create Certificate Request permit alternate HMC DNS entry

    When using the Create Certificate Signing Request dialogue (for defining HMC addresses), it is only possible to define one HMC DNS host name. Client wants to be able to define both a common name and a subject alternative name for the DNS entry. Ap...
    about 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

    Additional Replication IP for Secondary Server beside high level address and low level address

    Secondary server has 2 IPs but we can only specify 1 hl address when server is defined on primary server. Because of that all clients for which replication is enabled, want to use the HL address to perform backups when called for. Ultimately would...
    about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Scale 4.2.3 - Monitoring I/O processes

    We have in our production environment a GPFS cluster, version 4.2.3, used by the SAS system in version 9.4 M3The cluster consists of 11 servers, with Linux operating system RedHat 6.7 and 7.3, being 5 physical and 06 virtual.It has a dedicated dec...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    TSM needs basic functionality on ALL common OS:es

    The TSM client segfaults on startup on Fedora 18. While Fedora 18 hasn't yet made it to the best-effort support category, IBM should at least try to have dsmc basic functionality on all common operating systems. I'm also told that Ubuntu 13.04 use...
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Planned for future release

    Flashsystem should use multiple CPU cores to process I/O per Volume instead of just one core per Volume

    Layer 3 Communications (Customer) was experiencing low performance/high latency issues on their FlashSystem 5030 on a large Volume. IBM Support was engaged and the SME told them that this is because the FlashSystem is designed to utilize only one ...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

    TS4500 name tape drives

    It would be nice to have the ability to label each drive in the TS4500 GUI with a name that could be shown/sorted in the "Drives" screen.
    over 7 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 4 Not under consideration

    Request the ability to read and write C07 style tapes behind the TS7770 including previously written C07 tapes.

    CTBC Bank currently use three TS7740 with GRID connection, we are proposing three TS7770 to replace them.Since CTBC did implement backup 3-2-1 policy. After daily backup jobs they did submit other backup jobs to physical copy those that need to be...
    over 5 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Not under consideration

    Open I/O slots to all logical libraries

    IBM problem number866018YV3V TS4300 currently does not allow I/O slots to be visible to all logical libraries defined in the tape library. I/O can only be assigned to a single logical library. This is different to how other TS Tape Libraries work ...
    over 5 years ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

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