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Client encryption for LAN-free to the IBM Spectrum Protect server V8.1.9.300

I need to run a backup with the option of client encryption for LAN-free to the IBM Spectrum Protect server V8.1.9.300
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Central management console to be able to manage all SVC clusters from one pane.

Central management console to be able to manage all SVC clusters from one pane. This saves having to log onto each cluster GUI.
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Automatic aux vdisk creation on remote copy relationship creation.

When you create Remote Copy relationships, you need to identify the source LUN / Size / Name, then create an IDENTICAL (to the last Kb in size) volume on the auxiliary site. Then you can create the relationship – master / aux. If there was a simpl...
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Tivoli Storage Manager not compliant with IBM ITCS104 security rules

ESA Security board request to open this RFE in order that TSM password rules management should allow to configure the minimum ITCS104 rules.<br />Example : upper - lower case in pwd ,    minimum length=10 ...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

CSM consistency group data exposure at volume level

CSM does not report ( at the volume level ) any Global Mirror long data exposure to complete a consistency group.
over 7 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

TSM VE support for vsphere 5.5

Since vsphere 5.5 has already been released there is urgent need for support in TSM VE running on Windows.<br />TSM servers are on Linux Redhat 6.x<br />We are using TSM VE 6.4.1 and TSM Storage Manager 6.3 on Linux.<br />Compata...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Planned for future release

Node id change because of a shutdown

When a node in SVC is stopping unexpectedly, not regularly shut down, then the node gets a new node ID. Actually the node is automatically removed from the frame and then added again with a new id. This ruins the numbering system in the frame. Als...
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Increase RUNSTATSCHKINTERVAL time

I would like to suggest that you increase the time for RUNSTATSCHKINTERVAL. Today this option is at 10 minutes. I feel this option should be minimum at 90 minutes. Also document this option better, it's use, why it's needed even though DB2 does au...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

SNMP Alert for Vdisk Mirroring out-of-sync

Italian Customer with large environment based on SVC in stretched cluster + GM over 450km is using mirrorwritepriority set to latency. The customer want to receive an SNMP alert when VdiskMirroring goes out-of-sync. Accordingly with Hursley Archit...
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

SVC node id changed

On the SVC GUI interface the node display name has been changed even after a UPS battery change. We need the GUI to keep the names on the list after any hardware operation. Would be great if it worked like the V7000 storage interface. It seems for...
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

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