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    Improve TSM Replication over high latency WAN links

    I would like a TSM server option that would allow TSM to use as many parallel TCP connections as possible in order to maximize throughput along a Long Fat Pipe (WAN link w/ >60ms latency between TSM servers). Alternatively, I would like the TSM...
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Planned for future release

    Fibre Port Control from GUI on FS900 AE2/AE3 and FS9150

    Prudential is asking for the following, in regards to the FS900s, and FS9150s: "There should  be a distinction between, Offline (link failure), Inactive(admin Down), Online and SFP not present status. And user should have ability to change th...
    over 6 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    TSM for VE: Exclude Windows Page File

    TSM for VE needs to provide the ability to exclude Windows page files.
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Planned for future release

    exclude.vmdisk into client option set (cloptset)

    Currently, the exclude.vmdisk cannot be set centrally on the TSM server by using the cloptset.So if you have multiple data movers, you have to set it locally on each data movers.Currently, we are managing between 500 - 600 VMs, spawn on 4 virtual ...
    about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

    AFM Replication to Cloud on HCI Systems based on scale

    support hybrid deployments for HCI systems based on Scale ECE
    over 3 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Not under consideration

    SPP: Multiple LDAP servers required

    We are using SPP 10.1.13 for backup of VM machines of customers with some project manager requiring access and some customers (vm owners) to be able to start single file restore. Our customers requires to have more than one LDAP server authenticat...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    TS7700 should allow batch commands for PVOL movement

    We have had numerous times where we needed to issue commands to a large number of pvols in our VTS's. We would like the ability to issue the commands to PVOLs through a batch interface so we don't have to spend large amounts of time in the GUI.
    over 6 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Not under consideration

    support for chown/chgrp via API + policy engine

    Add API calls for the purpose of changing file/directory ownership. This could also then be exposed in the policy engine.
    about 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    modify behavior of ldap authentication cache expiration

    Currently ldap authentication cache expiration timeouts can be set via commandline:e.g.:chldap -authcacheminutes 60would set the authentication cache to be refreshed every hour. This is a fixed timer that starts to count when user logs in and woul...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Functionality already exists

    planexpl.awk.smp script should create an individual file for the SERVER.RERQUIREMENTS stanza.

    The packaged script to explode the DR Plan into individual files (i.e. planexpl.awk.smp) currently does not create an individual file for the SERVER.RERQUIREMENTS stanza. The stanza SERVER.RERQUIREMENTS should be included in these scripts so when ...
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

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