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Tape libraries (TS4500, TS4300, TS3200, TS3310, and TS3500) to use DNS name for encryption servers instead of IP

Tape libraries (TS4500, TS4300, TS3200, TS3310, and TS3500) use IP for encryption server and we would like tape libraries to use DNS name so that it is transparent when IP changes on SKLM servers.
over 3 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

Ability to restore a mailbox to a PST without connecting to an Exchange Server

Customers require to restore mailbox without needing to connect to an Exchange Server
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect backup of massive sparse file /var/log/lastlog on linux

From the customer: I found five RedHat-based Linux clients that were ultimately waiting for tape mounts because they were trying to back up the massive sparse file /var/log/lastlog. This file reports as being 480GB in size, even though it is actua...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Provide historical n/w metrics in TS7700 historical view

We experienced recent performance issues in our VTS environment and were having problems isolating the issue. It turned out to be WAN saturation so our 'sync across the WAN' workload was the only ones being slowed down. However, we only came to th...
over 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Not under consideration

Renaming MDF & LDF files during restore

Hello, The renaming of source MDF and LDF files for MSSQL DB during restore operation is basic functionality of any backup/restore software. It provides effective way how to store and structuralize files of DB. Since restored DB is usually new DB ...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

REST API access to TS4500 drive display codes

REST API for TS4500 drive list to include tape drive display codes for enterprise drives. This could be limited to only be shown when the specific /v1/drives/<sn> URL endpoint is used, rather than listing them for all drives (/v1/drives) - t...
over 4 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

Tape optimization recall termination improvement

The product has several recall types.Tape optimization recall(TOR) is one of them.Now you terminate a TOR, it waits to complete the current recall. It is important to implement a more granular TOR termination technique.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Not under consideration

Support Spectrum Protect for Space Management in Spectrum Scale 5.0 on Linux for System Z architectures

We need support of Spectrum Protect for space management (HSM) in Spectrum Scale 5.0 in Zlinux architectures.
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

V7000 QOS function to prioritize workload

The V7000 QOS function (I/O Governing) can limit the I/O's on a LUN. We need a functionality as I/O Priority Manager on DS8870 that can prioritize the I/O's on a LUN. Can we get this kind of function on the V7000?
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Connect TS7700 to an AWS S3 bucket with an IAM Role

Our customer wants to be able to connect their TS7700 to an AWS S3 Bucket using an IAM Role without the need of the access key and the secret key.
12 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Not under consideration

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