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Implement SNMP on SVC/Storwize

Please implement readonly SNMP V2 server on the device to allow for asset management and discovery
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

DP for Exchange GUI QoL enhancement during database recovery

During recovery of an Exchange database DP for Exchange GUI automatically configures "AllowFileRestore" flag in Exchange for this database.This will allow the database to be overwritten.During recovery user a presented with two dialog windows with...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Not under consideration

Keepalive option for Library client mount requests

Require library client sessions to use a keepalive or retry mechanism to keep from being timed out by firewalls. Library client is in one part of the network, library manager is in another, separated by firewall. Security rules insist that a timeo...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Keep alive packets

I would like the client and server to send and answer keep alive packets on the main restore connection so that stateful firewalls will not time out the connection when the restore takes a long time due to many tape mounts or other reasons. It's o...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 3 Not under consideration

Tivoli Flashcopy Manager support for DS8K Space Efficient Flashcopy

Client is in a Banking industry and a large customer of TSM and DS8K deployed site.( with several hundred TBs )The bank wishes to consider using FCM with Oracle / DB on AIX / Solaris Platform with DS8K SE Flashcopy Currently, FCM does not support ...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration

TSM VE Support - include option to specify a DATACENTER in option file

There currently is no include option to specify a DATACENTER. Please add it
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Improve the DRP extraction

DR plan scripts is based on the assumption that TSM is recovered to the original TSM server system where the group, the user who owns the instance, the directories and the instance already exist.I think it is good to add commands to check if the g...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

mmunlinkfileset -f report unmatch error message

[root@pnsd1 ~]# mmunlinkfileset aggr3 user_scratch -fUnable to quiesce fileset at all nodes.Fileset user_scratch has open files. Specify -f to force unlink. From above output we can see the error is not accurate reflecting customer's issue. They h...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Is a defect

Indication for changed data amount between incremental FCs

Today there is no way to query the differences of the internal OOS bitmaps from the DS8000, but it is valuable request Is it possible to have this indication ?
almost 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Set a Throughput occupancy threshold for TS7700

The client wants the TS7700 to have the option to parameterize a Threshold of Throughput, to monitor its occupancy, and when it exceeds the threshold send a message to the system.
almost 7 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 3 Not under consideration