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Support for SNMPv3 on the TS4300.

While SNMPv3 was supported on the older TS3100, it's not supported on the new generation TS4300 for more secure communication and the customer would like that feature to be added to the TS4300.
over 2 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Not under consideration

If there is a broken or offline canister, make it easier for the offline canister to rejoin the good canister after the offline canister is replaced

Customer had a canister that was replaced. The new canister would not boot. Support had to work with the admin to run the chbootdrive command to update the serial number to the new canister to get things fully working. The request is for an enhanc...
11 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Warning message in actlog when active log exceeds threshold

When active log exceeds threshold of 75% warning message ADM10501W (Health indicator "Log Utilization" ("db.log_util") breached the "upper" warning threshold of "75 %" with value "75 %" on "database" "xxxx.TSMDB1") is issued to db2diag log but the...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Metadata tags cannot be added/associated to Filespaces in Spectrum Protect

Metadata tags cannot be added/associated to Filespaces in Spectrum Protect
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 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

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

Spectrum Scale to support quota management on external Storage pool.

Request Spectrum Scale to support quota management on external Storage pool.
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Remote Cloning support for ProtecTIER native replication setups (will also work for all alternatively replicated data)

Implement support for Remote Cloning of "alternatively" replicated data. This request ist written with having IBM ProtecTIER native replication in mind.Implement some kind of "single domain behaviour" into TSM to have a TSM storage agent running o...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 6 Not under consideration

Save failed commands ran on cluster to be viewed in audit logs with output in Blue Diamond

* SME Martin Dzhagarov suggested this , so creating this RFE * - Where were supposed to look for failed commands.This is Blue Diamond and I don't think that it show up in the audit log- Failed commands do not show up in the Audit log. Can the cust...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Consistent VDisk copy protection during ESC Incremental Resynch and/or Volume Migration

During volume migration and volume copy incremental synchronization in stretch cluster configurations, until the second copy is consistent again, the loss of the primary site will command restoring data from tape backup into the second site capaci...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

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