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    TS7770 - Copy of TCT objects written by DS8910 on a TS7770 bucket to physical tape

    BrB - Banco de Brasilia, is requesting our support to have objects stored on TS77700 through DS8910 TCT function been moved physical tape.
    almost 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Planned for future release

    Add a nickname parameter to the DSCLI commands mklcu, lslcu, chlcu and showlcu

    The additional field can be very useful in multi-customer environments to add a comment (e.g. customer name) for each lcu.
    about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    Citibank: Add 2 more EKMs entries on the data at rest page on the MI so that we can add 2 IP’s and Ports for SKLM and 2 IP’s and Ports for GKLM (Different Key Servers for Tape and Disk)

    CITI is planning to leverage external encryption for their TS7700 systems as part of their long-term data security strategy. Currently, the Management Interface (MI) on TS7700 only allows for the configuration of a single set of IP addresses and p...
    6 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Under review

    Support for native velero backup to Storage Protect using the S3 Object Agent

    In case of a non-OpenShift container environment, native Velero implementation can be used to backup containerized applications. Velero is able to write the backups to an S3 target, for which the Object Agent from the Storage Protect can be used.
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Planned for future release

    Avoiding full volume background copy after restoring of one FlashCopy relation in DS8K multiple incremental FlashCopy env.

    The environment we request this enhancement is in DS8K multiple incremental FlashCopy with cascading FC support. In this environment, The customer will have two incremental FC relationships from one source A as Step1 bellow. Actually they will tak...
    about 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

    Support for unlimited VMMAXVIRTUALDISKS size

    We are start using TSM for VMware again after a few years using a different vendor. But during our migration we see that the maxlimit for a VMDK is still 8TB are we are VMs that has much larger VMDK files. We need to be able to increase this value...
    5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Submitted

    Windows ReFS is not supported for Single File Restore

    Because Windows ReFS filesystem is getting more and more popular it is a major lack of functionality and usability by not supporting ReFS for single file restore with the selfservice portal.
    11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Needs more information

    Library initialization at SP Server startup needs improvement

    When a Storage Protect server is starting up, it is querying the inventory of each tape library defined to this Storage Protect server. the Storage Protect server is using a 256KB buffer to store the inventory information returned by the tape libr...
    6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    For TS7700 Clusters dedicated only for Copy Export operation, replace primary Pool through Grid-Pool

    Lower Costs, Higher Performance
    6 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Protect Plus ability to offload historical Data

    We need the ability to offload historical data to ICOS.The customer had an environment backing up for approximately 12 months before ICOS was implemented and we started offloading.The customer wanted all its historical data offloaded to ICOS howev...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

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