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    Migrate data from one cloud storage pool to another cloud storage pool

    We need feature to migrate data from one cloud container storage pool to another cloud container storage pool using "move nodedata" as it's currently only support sequencial storage pool but won't support container storage pools
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

    Multi-tenancy: Add the feature to show only the resources belonging to the a specific RG.

    Add the feature to show only the resources belonging to the an specific RG.
    over 8 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

    Also Implement DAR on TSM Server CLI

    Currently DAR is implemented on the TSM Web Client Interface only. Individual file restores done from the TSM Server CLI do not utilize DAR. This causes additional overhead during a restore process of the entire image being scanned and if large en...
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

    LTO9 media pre-calibration status on TS4300 gui

    LTO9 medias need pre-calibration before they can used in production. TS4300 does not report pre-calibration status on it's media listing view. This should be reported on TS4300 graphical user interface.
    about 4 years ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

    Increase the maximum number of partnerships between the local and remote SVC/V7/V9

    Client has a V7 and (2) V9s that replicate to a single V7 in DR. They need to add an additional V9 in prod and want to replicate it to the same V7 in DR. To accomplish this Client needs IBM to increase the maximum number of partnerships between th...
    over 8 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    SPP 10.1.1 removed ability for user to change their own password?

    In SPP 10.1.1, it appears a natively defined user is not able to change their own password which is a change from previous version of 10.1.0.
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    DS8000 GUI should show degraded status, if a redundand compounent is down or under rebuild

    The DS8000 is built with a lot of redundancy in it. To prevent drive failures to cause a data loss situation, RAID-6 has been chosen for protection. Customer wants to get a simple information or status, if the machine is in a 'degraded status' by ...
    over 8 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

    TSSC automated FTP offload of configuration data

    System: IBM TS3000 System Console The IBM TSSC is being used as call home device and for event logging of TS3500 events from multiple libraries. An audit requirement is that we are making regular backups of the TSSC configuration information and t...
    over 8 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 3 Not under consideration

    Prevent reorg of BF_SUPER_AGGREGATES to kill restore tasks

    Whenever a reorg of BF_SUPER_AGGREGATES finishes, restore of SQL data fails. Disabling reorg for this DB is not practical, since restore tasks are starting up 24/7, and the tsm admin does not know when. Some other tool must be present to prevent t...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Use TDP4HANA without ssh connections

    Please change installation routine for TDP4HANA so setup.sh script does not require ssh connection to be able to work. Ideally you want to have the option if you want to use ssh to run remote commands (on remote or local hosts) or is you want to r...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 0 Not under consideration

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