IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    BVIR History Data Retention to be Increased in IBM TS7700

    IBM TS7700 Stores its history information in its database but only stores previous 90 days worth of data which can be extracted using BVIR from the host and then graphically displayed using VEHSTATS. This 90 days worth of data & VEHSTATS is us...
    about 9 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshots 4.1.6 support VMware 6.5

    The customer HDI Seguros have IBM FlashSystem 7200 and IBM Spectrum control. They need create snapshots with an schedule with retentions. So, they need to use IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshots for this Use case. They Have VMware 6.5 and Oracle DB.
    over 4 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    TSM Fastback Server has extremely slow read operations from disk

    TSM Fastback Server has extremely slow read operations from disk:- all restore operations with both methods, Fastback Mount and Fastback BMR,- DR to TSM and- long term proxy backups to TSM.The speed of restore does not exceed 10Mbit/s (aggregate) ...
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack 2 Not under consideration

    User credentials(Username/password) visible in plain-text

    As per Bank's IS policy/regulatory guidelines , sensitive information like username/password should to encrypted end to end. However in IBM products, SKLM(IBM Security Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager) and IBM Spectrum Control., these sensitive info...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Under review

    64 bit support for TSM System Backup and Recovery

    TSM for System Backup and Recovery runs in 32 bit only mode, making it impossible to run with the latest TSM client and TDP levels. My customer is a long time Sysback customer and uses it to write bootable backups to TSM. They now must move to a 6...
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Planned for future release

    GUI vs. waiters

    GUI thread fork()s mmlsfs ... but when the cluster is hanging anyway .. it does not makes any sense , maybe GUI can be optimized to check cluster state/waiters ... As if a cluster hnags (has waiters) adding more monitoring hanging processes on top...
    about 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    TSM for Databases clients not restorable from backupsets

    Currently if you use TSM for Databases to backup your databases you can't use backupsets because the restoring of the data doesn't work. Currently if you want to have a database backup included in a backupset you need to create a separate dump fro...
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

    Additional HMC support connectivity options

    Depending on security requirements, the customer is not allowed to connect DS888'0s HMC to the Internet.For this reason, I request the addition of a function that connects the system of the destination of the RSF and the HMC in the customer data c...
    about 9 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

    TSM deduplicated data in an offsite copy storage pool

    Customer Lyle Fast wants to request a change to the way TSM works regarding deduplicated data in an offsite copy storage pool. TSM recommends that offsite storage pools have a fully hydrated copy local and any offsite copies are non-deduplicated. ...
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Add ess3200 to general gpfs H36 cluster

    The clustomer already install gpfs on 4 nodes(h36 cluster). The customer want to use ILM to place hot data on high performance storage pool. Deside to add ESS3200 to this cluster.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale System 2 Not under consideration

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