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Client Side de-dupe when LAN Free backup on disk using GPFS

Ability to enable to client side data deduplication functionality in case of LAN free backup on disk in GPFS environment.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 3 Not under consideration

Reporting Enhancements for TSM4VE environment

With TSM version 6.3.5 the rename filespace command is not supported anymore. This feature provided to us possibility of having a clear separation of active and expired(decomissioned) VMware virtual machine filespaces.We also used for monitoring a...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

DataStore Free Space Check Before Creating Snapshot

TSMVE Should check Free Space on VMware Data Store Before creating a snapshot. If there is low space on Datastore then Snapshot can cuase the Datastore to go out of diskspace and unstable the VM's on that Datastore
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Would like choice to ONLY show tags for selection if present in results list

When we search through metadata and get a table of results, we can choose which columns to show and which to hide Many tags are not defined for my selections results, we would like to only have tags present in the results list in the tag column di...
over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

Repackage the Visual C++ installer to install to same folder as TSM Client during installation to avoid conflict with apps

We need the TSM Client to install its VC++ component into a different directory than the default common/shared directory that other apps use. This is so that when we install or upgrade the tsm client, it does not upgrade the shared VC++ that other...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Include Date/Time Stamp option on Sessions panel

A Timestamp column is available on the Session Details panel. However, this column is not available on the main Sessions panel. Please allow the customer the option to customize columns with Timestamp as an option.
over 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 3 Future consideration

HYDRA encryption managed by the SMS constructs

Protecting data through encryption can be set on a per pool basis, which enables you to encrypt all or some of your data when it is written to the back-end tapes on TS7720, or for the whole disk cache. Customer would like to have encryption manage...
almost 10 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 3 Not under consideration

pmcollector, pmsensor for AIX

Is it planed to develop "pmsensor, pmcollector" (linux like) programs for AIX ? Is there any possibility to include performance monitoring of GPFS cluster running on AIX to TPC (Spectrum controll) ? thank you
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

SVC custom alerting

Customer would like to change the error code 1187 to a higher severity than warning. Warning would not generate an email to let them know that they have a node down. Alternatively would like to change alerting on individual error codes.
almost 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

FILE volume locking

During the migration or stgpool backup of a FILE class storage pool, the process will 'hang' when it encounters a locked volume. The volume will remain locked if there is a long-running backup session or the client does not terminate correctly. If...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Not under consideration

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