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    check computability of Line tape version 3 .0.60 VS Kernel 3.10.0-1160.25.1.el7.x86_64 , 3.10.0-1160.el7.x86_64 OS RHEL 7.9

    Hi Team as advised by PFE Ref to case TS011516098 to open RPQ Ref to old case TS006661327 Devlopment and PFE advised to upgrade from line tape 3.0.56-1.x86_64 to line tape version 3.0.60 in the coming PMN to overcome issue of CPU hang /TSM server ...
    about 3 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    TS7700 should allow option to overwrite search history

    The TS7700 will retain up to 10 previous search results when querying logical or physical volumes. Once the customer has created 10 search results any additional search attempts will be denied until the customer deletes one or more of the previous...
    over 6 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Planned for future release

    Error message by failover form IPv6 to IPv4

    Every time a server switches from IPv6 to IPv4 it throws an error message. A warning would be more appropriate.
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

    SPP - Ability to deploy SPP server VM in KVM

    Customers requires to run SP server and SPP server in one box / server HW, but SPP server is not supported to run i KVM.
    about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    Official support for DB2 HADR in Spectrum Protect Server

    Although it is easy to find IBM documents recommending DB2 HADR as a replication solution for Spectrum Protect Server database (f.i. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6212198) it is not oficially supported. For this reason these products are ...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Resourcepool support for TSM VE

    Support in TSM VE for creating schedules based on VMware resource pool. Now this is only possible on host, folder, cluster and datastore.
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    Enhanced SVC GUI Performance Monitoring

    From customer :CPU It would be nice to see breakdown across iogroups and nodes to show any imbalances Vdisk metricsHere it would be nice to be able to drill down to a vdisk levelThe ability to break down vdisk metrics to host level. Mdisk metricsT...
    over 12 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

    exclude.vmdisk into client option set (cloptset)

    Currently, the exclude.vmdisk cannot be set centrally on the TSM server by using the cloptset.So if you have multiple data movers, you have to set it locally on each data movers.Currently, we are managing between 500 - 600 VMs, spawn on 4 virtual ...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

    Option to exclude VM folder in DOMAIN.VMFULL

    DOMAIN.VMFULL all-vm;-vmfolder=DR-Machines,*TEST* -vmfolder will work in the same way as "-vm" excluding certain folders or folders containing som word
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Not under consideration

    support for chown/chgrp via API + policy engine

    Add API calls for the purpose of changing file/directory ownership. This could also then be exposed in the policy engine.
    over 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

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