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TSM client Web GUI in TSM vwersion 8.1.4

TSM client Web GUI availability in TSM server version 8.1.4.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Not under consideration

Additional information/option for query session command

Adding tcp_name (DNS) and/or ip address to query session command (extending sessions table). Add an option to query node to provide specific node name like "query session node=XYZ" to find out a node is currently accessing the server.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Tool to Monitor IO per application from client nodes.

Tool to Monitor IO per application from client nodes. Similar to mmdiag –iohist, or better - output json to be gathered by api's.Monitor the block-size read/write per applicationMonitor the IO pattern per application – rand/read/seq etc.Monitor pa...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 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

Spectrum Virtualize VSS provider has to support Hyperswap configurations

There are currently limitations in the VSS HW provider used with IBM Flashsystem 9100 in Hyperswap configuration. This prevents Spectrum Protect Snapshot from supporting these configurations.
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

RFE: Chargeback reporting in SPP

Request from State of Arkansas for chargeback reporting based on the amount of data backed up in SPP per VM. (Not the amount of data stored on the vSnap server, after dedup compression - only amount of data backed up during backup job.)
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

PDU Power Cord for 92F too short for CMA

The two 2.8m PDU power cords for the 92F high density expansion are too short for the cable management arm it is supplied with. The power cords avialable for the 92F in econfig should be longer to allow the cable management arm to be extended, con...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

TSM Script Editing feature that was in the Administration Center to be in Operations Center

would like the TSM Script Editing feature that was in the Administration Center to be in Operations Center.The Admin Center Script editor was pretty “low function”, but at least it allowed changes and cut and paste. And it had a nice syntax checki...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Remove distinction between private and public IP address ranges

Remove the distinction between processing for private IP address ranges 10.0.0.0, 192.168.0.0 and the other one and public IP address ranges. Process the private subnet ranges the same way public IP address ranges are processed. Remove the undocum...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Improvement of usability by implementing a HOST command in dsmadmc

By using a HOST command or special character, commands can be issued at operating system level and you do not have to log out of dsmadmc.
12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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