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    Support for LSA (Local Security Authority)

    It would be beneficial for everyone when it comes to security.
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

    GPFS supports the dirsync mount option

    Our bussinuss architure is like FuseClient --> FileServer(GPFS NativeClient)-->GPFS. IBM GPFS does not support dirsync mount option in Linux. GPFS Native Client will save the dir meta changes(create/mknod/link/unlink/rename...) in cache. The...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    TSM for VE - VMware - VM Tag support

    We would like to request the VM schedule tagging functionality to VE. Not being able to do it at the VM level is creating a lot of unnecessary workarounds and exceptions. Is this something that is in scope for future releases? Thanks.
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

    show rebuild V7000 under running tasks

    As you can see we've had a hard disk with a lot errors. We've changed the hdd with a new one and reset the disk status back to spare disk. After this the array began to rebuild, but you can't see anything under the GUI of the V7000. Only with a sp...
    about 14 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Is a defect

    SP for VMware multiple proxies in web client

    In some SP for VMware environments using just one proxy node may not be optimal or even possible.The SP for VMware Vsphere Web client integration must be able to handle multiple proxy node configs.
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    Allow allocation of a cross-library dedicated cleaning slot without wasting 5unit slot

    Allow allocation of a cross-library dedicated cleaning slot (shared by all libs/tapes) without wasting 5unit slot. Generically, and possibly, allow also for logical libraries to be partitioned using an atomic unit less than 5slot (i.e. single slots).
    over 5 years ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    To Improve Communication Between Spectrum Protect Server (on Windows Platform) and VTL (Fujitsu Eternus CS)

    1. There is no option to define control path failover for medium changer (or timeout value for this), so whenever there is VLP failover in VTL or even small connection break, TSM immediately reports Library is not accessible and if we have volumes...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Teradata Data Stream Architecture (DSA) support

    Today they backup with TSM Teradata with BAR and would like to start using TSM with DSA. So they can use the new and enhanced alternative, and an eventual replacement to the legacy ARC-based BAR architecture that will triple backup performance and...
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

    INCLUDE.VMDISK improvement

    Our policy should be to make an image of only the OS-disk of VM VMWare, with TSM for VE . Making VMbackups of the data-disks with TSM for VE should not be allowed.For 91% of the VM's (+/-4200 VM's) , the OS disk with SCSI(0:0) is located on “hard ...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    Need to internally archive audit logs when removing cluster data

    When a T3 recovery is performed, cluster logs for the previous instance of the system are destroyed. This means if a malicious user were to perform unauthorized changes, then do a T3 recovery, that the audit trail documenting said actions is lost....
    over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

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