IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    ISP OC Autodeployment should work with TDP installed

    The auto deploy fails if for example a TDP for Oracle is installed.dsmtrace.cpp ( 146): DeployMgr psupdatemgr.cpp(1179): Terminating update manager. Detected installed package(s) 'tivoli.tsm.client.oracle.tools.aix.64bit tivoli.tsm.client.oracle.a...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    Minimum Volume creation size flag

    The ability to set a flag on the SVC that prevents creation of vdisks smaller than the specified size.
    over 8 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Operations Center Alert emails

    The recently released Operations Center supports the reporting and managing of TSM alert messages in a web page. It also supports the distribution of specific ALERTS to email recipients, allowing pro-active notification of certain relevant system ...
    almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Not under consideration

    TSM EIF events to multiple EIF targets

    TSM requires the ability of directing the TSM event feed to two or more EIF targets for resilience. Target can be any listener capable of receiving EIF events
    almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Protect server activity log to show detailed file restore and tape volume.

    Hi Team, As a requirement for auditing we would like to have the server actlog show the file restore in detail and the tape volume it was restored. At the moment we have to restore from the client using restore/pick option and screen shot to...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Functionality already exists

    SMB Error Message handling changes

    When a user tries to delete a folder via SMB (Windows explorer) served out from a protocol node while another user has an open file in the folder, the action completes without an error being posted that another user has a file open within the fold...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

    File permission - default at 666, change to 644

    The following have permissions set (by default) to 666:/etc/adsm/Nodes//spclicert.crl/etc/adsm/Nodes//spclicert.rdb/etc/adsm/Nodes//spclicert.kdbSetting at 644 works for root user. It is possible to have the permissions set to 644 so a tighter sec...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Is a defect

    FlashSystem - Firmware upgrade automation by SVC

    Hi,Our customer is running SVC with above 30 FlashSystem today. Each time he needs to upgrade the FlashSystems firmware he needs to do it for each FlashSystem separately which can be quite complicated to follow and specially to do it in given time...
    over 8 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Central management console to be able to manage all SVC clusters from one pane.

    Central management console to be able to manage all SVC clusters from one pane. This saves having to log onto each cluster GUI.
    almost 13 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

    Automatic aux vdisk creation on remote copy relationship creation.

    When you create Remote Copy relationships, you need to identify the source LUN / Size / Name, then create an IDENTICAL (to the last Kb in size) volume on the auxiliary site. Then you can create the relationship – master / aux. If there was a simpl...
    almost 13 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

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