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    Enable assignment of volume extents to a specific tier level within an easy tier hybrid pool

    Can you enable that all extents of a specific volume can be assigned to a specific tier level within an easy tier hybrid pool configuration ? Example: hybrid pool contents of 3000 GB Flash Tier and 50000 GB Enterprise tier. Create new volume and a...
    about 12 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Be able to configure the proxy server with IP ADDRESS and not only with FQDN

    Some customers use the proxy server with IP instead of FQDN due to internal rules
    about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Protect (TSM) version 7.1.7 certification with Informix ONBAR 12.10

    I want to know if the product Spectrum Protect (TSM) version 7.1.7 is certified to work with Informix ONBAR 12.10
    about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

    Cancel multiple client sessions

    Having a run to a server with many many client sessions, how can many being canceled by one single command?
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    DB backup not running on all nodes in oracle

    we have customers with oracle DBs that have some DBs registered in all nodes but that are not running in all nodes, and the SPP cannot backup these DBs, it is necessary to make the SPP capable of doing so
    about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Needs more information

    Allow the customers to use SSO / SAML with their domain

    As our company security request, it will be better that we can have the function that support SSO/SAML with our domain to login the IBM Insights.
    about 6 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    SPP - Change Message "CTGGA2192" from Error to Warning

    Change Message "CTGGA2192: No volumes were replicated because there were no new snapshots. Please ensure that the backup completed successfully and the frequency of the Replication is less than the backup frequency." from Error to Warning. If ther...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    The problem of ANE4007E in your case is because you try to backup CITRIX files with a Reparse Tag IO_REPARSE_TAG_CITRIX_PM (

    We are not able to backup user profiles for windows server that belongs to citrix environement.Refer IBM case id for etailed information about case and let me kow if more information needed for thia case.
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

    support OS kernel for linux 5.10.135.x86_64

    support OS kernel for linux 5.10.135.x86_64
    about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Administraive user on Filer

    for clustured-data ONTAP NetApp filers, the only capability that is required is ontaoapi with the admin role
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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