IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    TSM for VE UUID Change

    When a VM uuid changes and an existing filespace with that VM name exists in TSM the BM backup fails. Using testflag VMBACKUP_UPDATE_UUID works around this problem by having TSM check vCenter for the current UUID. This should be the default behavi...
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    Full VM Restore into alternate datastore, add capacity, util + free space of target datastore

    When performing a full VM restore into an alternate datastore it would be more than helpful to see besides the datastore name also the information about the whole capacity / utilized capacity / free capacity of the datastore to be able to select a...
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

    TDP-R3 should not consider the SAP Oracle DB backup which is failed for control files for retention count.

    We are taking SAP Oracle DB backup using TDP-R3 along with BRbackup utility and RMAN. Backup attempted to create an auto backup of SPFILE and control file which got failed, but the backup continued running and TDP instructed to store backup pieces...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Future consideration

    Spectrum scale - Read only dos attribute behavior on chmod 444/644

    mobileye recently migrated from SONAS to scale . IBM approved for the SOANS system RPQ for "read only dos attributes on chmod 444/666. Mobileye are asking for the same RPQ on scale . attached the documentation approval for SONAS.
    about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    Incremental backup support in NDMP based backup for IBM TSM 7.1.

    Require Incremental backup support for NDMP based backup in IBM TSM.
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    TSM for VE support of VRA

    TSM support for vRA (VMware vRealize Automation Center) based VMs
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

    Add TSM4VE control files to TSM DB

    Currently a diskpool is required to hold control files for TSM4VE backups. This data would be much easier to manage if it were located directly in the TSM DB
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

    Mailbox restore wizard

    The procedure of restoring item level requires me to install TDP for Exchange on one of the DAG nodes and start the mailbox restore wizard. Unfortunately you HAVE to install TDP for Exchange on the DAG node.In our days customers wants to remove an...
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Not under consideration

    Replication: enable TCP Window Scaling

    Based on information in the PMR and simulations it appears that the replication is using a fixed TCP Window size. Please consider enabling TCP Window Scaling to allow bigger transfers speeds.
    over 10 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    snmp event testing functionality

    One of my Expert care customers contacted me and specifically requested to submit a request for him to add the funcionality to be able to test snmp in future code releases. At the moment there is no such funcionality on FS7300 and they have to cre...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

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