IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Sensors Install Symlink behavior change (avoid overwrite)

    Installing the gpfs sensor package will result in zimon been installed under /opt/IBM/zimon. In case /opt already exists this migthresult in problems, in our case it was a symlink to the gpfs filesystem which was silently deleted. This was seen wi...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Adjustments to selecting backups in TSM for ve

    The way you have to build schedules and select virtual machines for schedules is so archaic. I don't want to go down my list of esxi hosts and filter through all of my virtual machines. Show me clusters and folders and other ways than just one way...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

    Client deployment and installation enhancements

    We need to deploy and configure a lot of clients (round about 5500 nodes). There is no way inside ISP to deploy client code intitially to clients and confgure nodes from central point like OC. It would also be nice to use use the same install meth...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

    ESS/Scale Crit Sit AB9147 opened 3/4/21 - Temperature Sensor Failure message requires replacing entire enclosure.

    Problem Description:Management GUI shows rsrch1 GL6S ESS 3 Enlosure 78R0299 needs service. Shows temperature sensors 5, 7, 11 and 15 failed. The issue is that for a minor problem with temperature sensors failing a major service event bringing the ...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale System 2 Not under consideration

    Melio File System backup

    TSM BA client for Melio File System backup on Windows.
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

    TSM unable to recover file space if directory has been changed to symbolic link

    If a directory is changed to a symbolic link on a zLinux server then TSM does not expire the director but continues to keep its backup as current. This causes a problem doing a restore because TSM client attempts to restore both the directory and ...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

    Ability to delete EXPORT volumes

    I would like IBM to give TSM an ability or command to delete volumes marked as EXPORT based on the volume number. "DELETE VOLUME XXX discarddata=yes" does not work because exports are not part of any storage pools and "delete volhistory todate=XXX...
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

    Advanced OVM integration with Spectrum Protect

    IBM have signed a new customer on board. The customer is embarking on a significant shift of its estate to an Oracle Supercluster platform, making use of Oracle Virtual Machine (OVM). The customer wants to ensure that the Data Protection platform ...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    Option to modify updated weekdays and weekend in spectrum protect

    We are located in UAE and here weekdays and weekend are different what is defined in the spectrum protect server . I want to update weekdays and weekend definition in the system according to this region . like mentioned below. Weekdays = Sunday, M...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Spectrum Virtualize FQDN support

    The Spectrum Virtualize SW stack needs to support FQDN/DNS addresses for LDAP/AD, NTP, SMTP, External Encryption Servers, or SNMP. Currently requires hard-coded IP addresses.
    almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

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