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TSM for VE support of VRA

TSM support for vRA (VMware vRealize Automation Center) based VMs
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Add TSM4VE control files to TSM DB

Currently a diskpool is required to hold control files for TSM4VE backups. This data would be much easier to manage if it were located directly in the TSM DB
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Mailbox restore wizard

The procedure of restoring item level requires me to install TDP for Exchange on one of the DAG nodes and start the mailbox restore wizard. Unfortunately you HAVE to install TDP for Exchange on the DAG node.In our days customers wants to remove an...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Not under consideration

Enforce Volser ranges explicitly when they are present.

In the TS4500 library software if volser ranges are configured, I would like the library software to explicitly enforce these volser range rules. If a tape is entered that does not fall within the volser range rules the tape is treated as a foreig...
over 6 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

Parameterization of the port (2443 default) used by the Spectrum Control for the configuration of Hitachi storages

I have to integrate a hitachi VSP G700 and G900 storage in Spectrum Control, but I have a problem because the default port 2443 of the hitachi Command Suite when the client installed it changed to 443 and 2443 port is not available. The request is...
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

SRA agent should support "status" for HBAs

Right now the SRA (Storage Resource Agent) does not support a status for SAN HBAs.It should display a useful status for every HBA - preferably even every port on the HBA.Possible states: Online/Offline/Link-Up/Link-Down, etc.This should exist for ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

Multiples Users logged in simultaneously

When a Library TS4300 is logically partitioned in several logical libraries every admin or operator need to do some administratives jobs on their own Logical Library, on the actual restriction to do simultaneos login , its not possible for all of ...
about 3 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 0 Not under consideration

Rebinding Archives between management classes

We have two managment classes for archiving data; one mgmt class expires archives after twelve months (temp mgmt class) and the other does not expire archives( never expires). We have a requirement to set some of the archives under temporary mgmt ...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

Replication: enable TCP Window Scaling

Based on information in the PMR and simulations it appears that the replication is using a fixed TCP Window size. Please consider enabling TCP Window Scaling to allow bigger transfers speeds.
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

New OS & Oracle version support for SPP

VODAFONE TELCO need an Backup SW for those versions:It could be possible to support (three different options needed): 1) RedHat 6.42) RedHat 5.9 (if possible with Python 2.4)3) Oracle 10g They like SPP as Backup SW, but they NEED to support those ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

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