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ACL restores @ single file restore

In case of a single file restore, the Windows Explorer do not allow to copy ACLs in a normal copy-and-paste operation.So it is needed to use a 3rd party product (xcopy, robocopy,..) to "copy" the files from backup to productive location. This is i...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Need to shorten disruptive time when reconfiguring nodes

System : IBM Storwize seriesActor : User needs to improve I/O wait time during Storwize microcode (SVC code) upgrading. When concurrent SVC code upgrading on Storwize storage series, we need to "reconfigure" a node to the cluster after code update...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Adaptive Subfile Backup support larger file sizes

Increase the maximum file size supported by SubFile backup. We have customers using TSM to backup outlook.ost files and archive*.pst files. The file size is over the 2GB limit of Adaptive Subfile Backup, but we have many of these files and they ch...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

Dropdown lists for Restore VM operations

It would be nice to have the client populate the Datacenter, Host,, and Datastore options in the Restore VM screen.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Planned for future release

TCPPort LISTEN limit to single service ip addresses

In the dsmserv.opt should be an option added to set the specified TCPPort listen only on a few single ip addresses and not on all, like now. netstat -an | grep LISTEN...tcp4 0 0 *.1501 *.* LISTEN...This security issue occur if you run more then on...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Unable to do file based recovery due to Mount Function is not supported for DYNAMIC Disks. MBR is limited to 2TB.

Unable to do file based recovery due to Mount Function is not supported for DYNAMIC Disks. MBR is limited to 2TB.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Q STGP to display % free as well as % Util

It would be handy to have Q STGP display what is truely avaliable for use in a storage pool, rather than just what is utilised. If you run the command it will show you how much disk is currently in use, but unless you also look at Q VOL STGP=<P...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

reduce install size of TSM Server

Currently the size of the TSM V6 server is 1.6 - 1.8GB. This is regardless of a fresh install, upgrade or minor fix install. The majority of the space appears to be consumed by db2. We have 1200 TSM servers, mostly located at remote sites with low...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

Include FlashCopy information in SAN Volume Controller/Storwize system dumps

Storwize and SAN Volume Controller snaps are useful, self-enclosed files used by IBM for diagnostics and support. Additionally, these files can be used for reconstruction and migration by IBM Business Partner, Value-Added Resellers, System Integra...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

V7000 Pool View: expanded vs. collapseed view

Customer asks for collapsed view of pools in the GUI. By default, the pool view shows expanded all pools - but this is with many pools not very handy. Maybe it's possible to add a setting like (expanded or collapsed display of the pools in the GUI...
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

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