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    Decommissioning Commands

    To implement a "DECOM NODE" command so node is automatically renamed as per default configuration and data to be automatically deleted when provided retention period is reached
    about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Planned for future release

    Support for Domino Protect for Mail (TDP) for Ubuntu

    Domino is supported on a range of Linux operating-systems. But this requires also backup solutions to be available for those Linux platforms. Domino on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is getting more and more attraction and should be supported b TDP.
    almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 0 Under review

    Add Broadcom SAS 3808/3908 HBAs in Scale ECE

    One of OEM partners are planning to replace existing SAS 3108 HBA with SAS 3808/3908 HBAs. But we didn't find SAS 3808/3908 HBAs in the support list of ECE 5.1.9. The partner hope IBM can support SAS 3808/3908 HBAs in the next release. They can pr...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Detecting bad network connection and perform preventive Action.

    When there is a Bad Network connection there is a possibility of receiving malformed or out of sequence Commands. The Spectrum Virtualize products are reacting to this anomaly by rebooting themselves, sometimes both nodes rebooting simultaneously....
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Is a defect

    export server does not include scripts etc.

    When running export server in order to import srversettings in an brand new server not everything is includen. I miss scripts, proxy settings, servr and node groups from the data exported out of the old server.
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    VE file level restore lacks of indexing

    Unable to quickly find deleted files without mounting all potential snapshots
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 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...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    Client Deployment Request

    I understand it is a requirement of automatic client deployment that clients contact the server on the address as configured by the SERVERHLADDRESS. In our environment, the SERVERHLADDRESS set on the TSM Server cannot be contacted by the client be...
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 6 Not under consideration

    Improve NQR Performance

    When doing an NQR on Nodes with tens of millions of files, the initial TSM database search and sort operation which takes place on the server takes several hours. We noticed that the hardware resource utliziation (CPU, DB2 Disks) is not very high ...
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    ODBC Enhancements for TSM 6.3

    To enable access to data from the TSM Database, TSM until Version 5 enabledODBC using a TSM administrative user with limited authority. Since TSM6,ODBC is via the DB2 ODBC connect.The TSM ODBC connect documentation only describes TSM ODBC access u...
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

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