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    policy admins need ability to remove replication configuration in order to remove node

    We provide TSM as a service and grant policy rights to our server users who create/delete their own nodes, schedules, and the like. Previously, they would delete their own filesystems ande then remove the node. However, since implementing node rep...
    about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

    Relabel-On-Scratch option for external library manager

    When TSM Server recycles (frees) a virtual tape of a VTL this is eliminated from the TSM DB, but not from the VTL. So statistics e.g. Dedup factor are distorted over time. To prevent from this the TSM Relabel-on-Scratch option was introduced. But ...
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Planned for future release

    Add functionality to Python SDK for Spetctrum Discover

    When run in OpenShift, every pod that uses the SDK seems to require root privileges because the SDK mounts data connections under /nfs-scanner/. We have some Python scripts that use the SDK to work on files and apply tags to them in Spectrum Disco...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Planned for future release

    Fiserv has standardized on PingID V1.36 as the MFA software of choice for their enterprize platforms and they would like to have IBM certify PingID with FlashSystem.

    Fiserv has standardized on PingID V1.36 as the MFA software of choice for their enterprize platforms and they would like to have IBM certify PingID with FlashSystem Spectrum Virtualize 8.5.4
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

    SPP - Change Message "CTGGA2192" from Error to Warning

    Change Message "CTGGA2192: No volumes were replicated because there were no new snapshots. Please ensure that the backup completed successfully and the frequency of the Replication is less than the backup frequency." from Error to Warning. If ther...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    Out of space alert/warning from healthchecker should repeat

    Storage Insights Healthchecker for FlashSystems monitors both effective and physical capacity utilization and generates a warning alert if the capacity usage exceeds 80%. However this warning is then not generated again until the capacity utilizat...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

    TS7700 should allow option to overwrite search history

    The TS7700 will retain up to 10 previous search results when querying logical or physical volumes. Once the customer has created 10 search results any additional search attempts will be denied until the customer deletes one or more of the previous...
    over 6 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Planned for future release

    TSM for Mail for 64bit Domino on Linux x64

    There's currently no compatible TSM for Mail client available in order to backup a server running IBM Domino 9 - 64bit for Linux.
    almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Planned for future release

    Improve TSM Replication over high latency WAN links

    I would like a TSM server option that would allow TSM to use as many parallel TCP connections as possible in order to maximize throughput along a Long Fat Pipe (WAN link w/ >60ms latency between TSM servers). Alternatively, I would like the TSM...
    almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Planned for future release

    TSM for VE: Exclude Windows Page File

    TSM for VE needs to provide the ability to exclude Windows page files.
    almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Planned for future release

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