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Support for Cloud Containers (such as COS/Cleversafe) from Linux on Power

Currently we have clients moving from old Power 7 boxes to new Power 8 boxes who want to start a new TSM server on Linux In addition clients are keen on COS/Cleversafe for more than just TSM. The lack of Cloud Container support from Linux on Power...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Need support of Power 9 Compression HW chip on AIX Client for TSM Server and Client

Hellowe have implemented a new Backup LAN with CISCO ACI Network 40 GBit and made backup over this seperate lan to tsm serverWe need to do a compression on the TSM Client side because the TSM Servers has currently not the capabilities to store unc...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Preventive Function to corrupt a volume as flashcopy target if the volume is scsi reserved

If a volume is mounted and used by a OS and V7000 execute flashcopy to the volume as target, the volume is corrupted by occurring inconsistent with filesystem on the OS. The our client strongly request an optional function to prevent the situation...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Movement of Config node without node reboot

Ties into RFE 114313.command structure or flag that can be used to set the next targeted config node, then be able to execute the movement of the config node without requiring a reboot of the current config node.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

ReFS and S2D support for Spectrum Protect server on Windows

The IBM Spectrum Protect server installation on Windows does currently not support the resiliant filesystem (ReFS) from Microsoft as underlying filesystem due to restrictions of supported filesystems for the DB2 database. The Spectrum Protect team...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

TSM Node replication should report warning instead of failure when associated node cannot be replicated

TSM 7.1.x reports a replication failure when a client node that has been setup for replication has an associated node which is not setup for replication or is a Receive Node. Replication succeeds, but process result is FAILURE, which is not the ca...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Add "Remove" disk to Virtualize GUI

Add "remove disk" function to the GUI. To remove a disk required using the CLI. In the above ticket, the SV1 phoned home for a drive throwing errors. It was determined the drive needed to be replaced. The SSR went on site and was working with the ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Improvement to the upgrading process of MGMT server

The upgrade process is apparently not perfect. I was "kicked" out from the upgrade progress page, before process completed and that can cause confusion? The reason i was kicked out, was that the update components/package was updated ? A suggestion...
8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Report fragmentation of an specific file in a Scale filesystem

We would like to report the fragmentation of a single (of course large) file in the Spectrum Scale filesystem.Not mmdefragfs (This command only reports the fragmentation of the complete filesystem.) .You can compare it to the Linux command "filefr...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus - Oracle DB support on Windows

Small customers use Windows platform for Oracle DB's and current support is only for Oracle DB running on Linux. SPP in not suitable for them and cases are lost. Veeam has such support.
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration