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Spectrum Scale maintenance integration with RHEL "yum"

when patching is performed on RHEL (with yum update), binaries that match the kernel must be available concurrently from an IBM public REPO site.1) Patching of RHEL cannot cause a mismatch of the binaries between RHEL and Scale, 2) compilers canno...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

Tape 7700 CUIR Function Enhancement - Vary one device Online for testing purpose while the Cluster in Service Mode

First: What is it? Vary one device Online for testing purpose while the Cluster in Service Mode using CUIR Function before bring the Cluster back to Online mode using GUI. At Now, we bring the Cluster in Service Prep, then finish what need to be d...
8 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 3 Not under consideration

Need to add the functionality for VM multi-writer enabled disks backup. (Object. CBT-enabled VM having multi-writer disk(s))

Hello Team, We configured few VM backup In IBM Spectrum Protect Plus and those are getting failed due to multi-writer enabled on their disks. too resolve this issue, we raised a case (case # TS008530431). We get an update that in case is there is ...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

V7000 / V3700 / SVC GUI Based Flashcopy Scheduler

Our customers are requesting an enhancement to the V7000 to include a basic scheduler of flashcopies per LUN. EMC and Netapp both offer this compelling feature. Smaller shops do not want to purchase or deal with the complexity of Tivoli Flashcopy ...
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Not under consideration

REST style API for administrative purposes

An API towards the TSM server is desirable, in order to be able to automate functions other applications/services - instead of having to build wrappers for the administrative command-line.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Ability to backup Oracle databases (11gR2+) running on Oracle Enterprise Linux

Ability to backup Oracle databases (11gR2+) running on Oracle Enterprise Linux.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

'Audit report required for 'Days Without Access' function of physical volume pool

I would like to be able to obtain an audit report on reclamations made for the 'Days without Access' function.
almost 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

Event notification capability to mark a hardware/software event as "Acknowledged/Unfixed" to suppress daily ongoing notifications until able to be resolved.

Current Spectrum Virtualize Software behavior: When an event is triggered/logged for a hardware/software failure or pending failure it causes SNMP notification to our in-house Monitoring system that triggers a call out notification to the Team (as...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Encryption of Server2Server Volumes

We'd like to get a possibility to use encryption on any device class protected by the current IBM Spectrum Protect Instance. Especially using server2server virtual volumes on another IBM Spectrum Protect Server, needs the data stored on the target...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

lin_tape driver for Ubuntu is outdated, any plans to update in the near future?

lin_tape driver is needed for all IBM LTO tape drives and libraries. We have applications running on Ubuntu and need a current version of the driver. With the current version we are stuck to Ubuntu 20.04 and can't move forward.
8 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

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