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    Over calculation of space needed for NDMP backup

    When attempting to do an NDMP backup of a virtual filespace, instead of looking at the amount of data in the filespace that is being backed up, TSM looks at the entire used storage of the NAS filer to determine whether the storage pool target is l...
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Request to support kernel version 5.4.15.x

    Our OEM parnter Inspur Electronic Information were resold many ECE cluster to their customers. One of key issue is limited kernel supported in Storage Scale. Their customer need flexible support policy to kernel version. Their customer need to use...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Flow diagram between the pods in OpenShift

    In order to better understand Spectrum Discover a flow diagram would be very useful. For example: We open the web UI and click on connections:frontend pod -> connmgr -> db2whrest 2. We start a policy via the REST endpoint:policyengine pod -&...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Not under consideration

    Increase overview on status of VM backup for administrators

    When viewing status for protection of VM backup in Spectrum Protect for Virtual Enviorments, whether in OC or in WebClient we should show what type of backup was successful. Did backup success quiesced or not, is it Microsoft VSS, or VMDDK, or cra...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

    Command required to terminate tape optimization recall

    No command is available to terminate a tape optimization recall(TOR).Now you need to invoke "ctrl+c" if you have access to the shell in which the dsmrecall is running, or search its process ID and issue "kill SIGTERM". dsmq + dsmrm can be used for...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Future consideration

    Need a function displaying the recalls optimized for tape access

    Currently you are not able to see which file is being recalled in case of tape optimization recall(TOR).The dsmq command is not applicable to TOR.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Not under consideration

    Enable cipher encryption on Fusion when doing remote mount of scale filesystems in Global data platform

    When working with banking clients, all communication must be encrypted. Scale remote mounts can be done by using CIPHER encrpyion but the default used by fusion is authonly. We need to allow cipher auth in the remote mount fusion is doing when wor...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Fusion 1 Not under consideration

    add awk to restricted shell in spectrum virtualize

    please add awk to available commands in restricted shell on storwize / spectrum virtualize systems
    over 6 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Support IBM S3 interfaces provided by IBM products on SPP+

    The only supported S3 interface from IBM is "IBM CLOUD SORAGE". Technote 1087149 lists the "s3 compatible storage providers" and there is not ONE product listed there from IBM. Spectrum Protect, and Spectrum Scale come to mind, but I am SURE there...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Allow client migration from VSNAP to OSSM and back again

    Currently to migrate a client from OSSM to Vsnap storage requires deleting ALL recovery points for that client. This is worse than migrating to a different backup vendor. I have NO backups for that client simply because I want to change my backend...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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