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Stop automatically disassociation from SLA Policy

If for example one has DNS issue (it happens) and the SPP appliance fail to resolve, lets say a specific fileshare that is associated with a SLA.Then the SPP appliance desides that this fileshare is not longer there and removes it from the SLA..Th...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Is a defect

CTDB Enhancement 50/5000 to ensure an uninterrupted upgrade to new Release levels

The problem with the SMB upgrade is with the data shared between the protocol nodes. It is not tied to the protocol version used between SMB clients and the protocol nodes. Samba stores internal data (e.g. for the SMB state of open files) in tdb d...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

Enhancements to the Operations Center reporting

The company is building executive reports using Spectrum Protect Operations Center. They have over 6000 nodes doing backups in 19 Spectrum Protect servers and management would like to have a view of some statistics for the whole environment. Today...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

We would like to be able to backup AWS S3 buckets

We have many AWS S3 buckets that users update every day. Versioning is very expensive as there is no dedup/compression and this is especially true if you replicate across AWS regions. We would like to be able to backup and restore files to S3 like...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Under review

seems deleting data from TSM trough TDP exchange client/console is allowed, even if on TSM node deleting backups and deleting archive is set to ‘NO’

Hi! We had an open point/call with IBM , seems deleting data from TSM trough TDP exchange client/console is allowed, even if on TSM node deleting backups and deleting archive is set to ‘NO’ My suggestion is to add some features to block this becau...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Future consideration

Tape replace to skip bad file

RPQ: 672-92701 When Tape state is changed to need_replace and require_replace, customer was told to migrate their data from bad tape to a new tape cartridge. While if there is a damaged file in the replace tape, ”eeadm tape replace” will stop at t...
2 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Planned for future release

Support migrate and recall REST API in storage archive

RPQ: 672-92700 As we know, in hyperscale tape storage system tape archive node works with customer distributed storage system. The current interface between tape archive and customer distributed storage system is command, it is limited in local OS...
2 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Planned for future release

Performance improvements for LTO9 unload

RPQ: 672-95268 Both Tencent and Baidu have requested performance improvements for LTO9 unload. Since LTO9 performs low-tension unload this can be slower than LTO8. However, there is an LTO9 option with the RAO command that will optimize the LTO9 u...
2 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Planned for future release

Request for SMTP Settings Feature in TS2900 Tape Library

Dear IBM Product Management Team, I hope this message finds you well. I am reaching out to request an enhancement for the TS2900 Tape Library related to its SMTP configuration capabilities. Currently, the SMTP settings on the TS2900 do not support...
2 months ago in IBM TS2900 Tape Library 0 Under review

EasyTier Tier priority

Depending on the configuration or status of the pool, EasyTier might place initial data on a lower. This can result in poor performance as new data is added to a system.
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

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