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Backup Session Bandwidth Throttling

I would like to have a TSM backup client option that sets the maximum bandwidth that the session is allowed to use. Would like to have the option available for Windows and Linux clients.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Errors for RSYSLOG should show more detail.

We enabled RSYSLOG pointing to a test syslog server. The action appeared to work properly but very soon after the status of the server was shown as being offline. However, when I queried the syslog server data was being sent so it wasn't truly off...
almost 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

ANR2034E should be INFO and not ERROR

It's annoying that there's an error logged just because I ran query mount and nothing was mounted (maybe that was a good thing). This is how it currently looks on one of our servers, 184644 counts of ANR2034E, second place is 938. That's a lot of ...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Make supported use of additional samba parameters

In order to supply our storage users with the same user experience as on former SONAS share, we want to make supported use of additional sambashare parameters:# File browsinghide dot files = yes/nohide files = lost+foundhide special files = yes/no...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

DS8K HMCs should recommend regular power recycles

DS8K should recommend regular maintenance procedures for HMC power cycles to prevent hangs. This could be yearly, bi-yearly, etc., as long as it was a time period sufficient to prevent hangs due to unforeseen circumstances. This would prevent HMCs...
almost 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect for HADOOP File System

There is a need for Spectrum Protect to protect Hadoop file system
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

TSM Admin Center(tip) needs support for Firefox 6 and beyond.

TSM Admin Center - tip(tivoli integrated portal) does not support firefox 6 and beyond. It needs to support firefox 6 and beyond for currency in our environment.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 6 Not under consideration

Add Support for Windows Directory Junction Links / symbolic links

We "extend" disks by creating Symbolic Links using Microsoft Windows mklink.exe command. i.e.mklink /j f:\DataF\Departments\CofE-PD\PRJ\Projects\2020 k:\Data\Departments\CofE-PD\PRJ\Projects\2020 This will Create a directory junction f:\DataF\Depa...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Hide snapshot directory

Hide the snapshot directory by removing its entry from the readdir(3) system call and/or getdents(2) system call. Currently snapshot directories are not actually hidden, they are fully visible but just have a name beginning with a dot. That is jus...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

.NET Wrapper for TSM API

A mono-project (http://www.mono-project.com/) wrapper for the TSM API is desirable, in order to ease development of utilities and add-ons to the TSM Server
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

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