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    Enable REST via commandline

    REST API has to be enabled using Open Webbrowser, Login, and Check the "Enable REST" Checkbox.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

    Add Support Hyper-V Fail-over cluster with Storage Spaces Direct running on Windows Server 2022 Datacente

    Lots of our Microsoft customers use this combo.
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    Oracle ACFS

    Requesting that TSM support the backup of Oracle ACFS data. Thank you for your time,Brian
    about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

    Open LDAP support

    LDAP authetication is only supported with :ADIBM directory server It is possible to support LDAP authetication with Open LDAP ?
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Automatic pool size increment by simple resize of underlying mdisks (e.g. Storwize LUNs)

    Increasing the size of a pool consisting of mdisks from Storewize needs the following steps according to an discussion with our external partner:- create new LUNs on Storwize and map to SVC- integrate into pool on SVC- migrate data to bigger LUNs ...
    over 6 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    TSM needs to stop trying to load the same tape media to the same drive after hundreds of failures with ANR8944E and ANR8359E.

    on 11/03/14 during a tape pool reclamation, 721 counts of "ANR8944E..." messages from "05:52:58" to "06:28:28" for volume I41079 and TKLI4-DR6 were received by TSM server. See blow:11/03/14 05:52:58 ANR8944E Hardware or media error on drive TKLI4-...
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Delete induvidial export from volhistory or delete based on device class

    My customer created all monthly and yearly data via export especially for TSM for VE data. Tapes should be expired after a year luckly 2 diffrent mngmt classes used for monthly and yearly. 1st issue TSM can not delete individual export volumes onl...
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    allow deduplicated tape copy pools for storage pool backup purposes

    Currently, only FILE pools can be deduplicated and TAPE pools can not. The reason is that a restore from a deduplicated TAPE pool would be unuseable due to excessive number of tape mounts. We understand this. However, we would still like to see th...
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    About Alarms

    The client's filesystem space is 93% used gpfs sent an alarm pool-data_high_error through gui-snmp trip on October 20, which was notified to the client in time through the client's alarm platform, but the current administrator did not deal with it...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Replication of Larger file systmes from COS

    Hi Mitul, I have the answer now for the difference between client restore from cloud vs replication from cloud 1: the normal restore from the cloud was making use of the chunk cache and async read. Those tools can in some cases make the restore fr...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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