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    FCM: Support for Lotus Domino

    Currently FlashCopy Manager supports the following applications: SAP, Oracle, DB2, MS SQL, MS Exchange. Non of the current platforms where the FlashCopy Manager is being shipped delivers a support for Lotus Domino. Also, it might be considered tha...
    about 15 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration

    backupManagementTag: Unassigned instead of excluded

    'dsmc show VM all' command output displaying "backupManagementTag: Unassigned" for excluded guests.Example :backupManagementTag: UnassignedbackupManagementTagSource: Tag on (vSphere object name) (mobid)
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

    Enhance TDP for Oracle to enable an option to bypass the catalog and access inactive backups

    Enhance the product (all TDP's for Databases but in this case specifically for Oracle) to enable recovery of inactive backups (not in the catalog).
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

    Show SCSI ID (LUN) in View Volume by Host

    In the "Volumes by Host" View is a column missing to show the SCSI ID or LUN Number which is assigned to the vdisk by the specific host.
    over 11 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Allow tape drive to be part of more than one logical library

    I would like to have the possibility to assign one tape drive in a TS4300 to more than one logical library. Most tape libraries currently are not over-utilized, meaning there are a lot free time slots where drives are not in use. Having multiple (...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

    Moving a node to another domain should not remove it from the backup schedule automatically.

    Logically the command to move the node to another domain should have failed until I removed the node from the current backup schedule as the domain is tied to the schedule. Or I would expect a message prompting to continue informing me that the no...
    about 15 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Is a defect

    Backup and Restore Storage Pool by using TSM Storage Agent

    Currently Backup and Restore storage pool can only be done by TSM Server. Meanwhile there are many TSM Storage Agents deployed on the environment which are idle during non backup window. Backup data is always getting bigger, and increasing the TSM...
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 2 Not under consideration

    Use enterprise SATA drive in ECE

    In our configuration, except SAS HDD/SSD and NVME, we also need to use enterprise SATA HDD/SSD as pdisk in ECE. These SATA drives can pass the ECE precheck for DpoFua and SCT ERC. The attachment is the list.
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under 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.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    Improper Session Management - Simultaneous Sessions

    This issue is related to same user opening multiple sessions either with different browsers and different system. Ideally, the application should allow only one active session per user.
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Needs more information

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