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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...
12 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

TS7700 - Validate export media

Validation of data (logical volume) in the physical media.
almost 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Not under consideration

Copy container pool to cloud pool

Spectrum Protect (TSM) currently does not support the use of cloud pools as protection for container pools. The Copy Container functionality should be enhanced to support the used of cloud pools (in addition to tape) as a way to protect an on-prem...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 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

.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

CIM agent on DS8900F for Spectrum Protect Snapshot

CIM Agent not available on DS8900. CIM is the only option to connect Spectrum protect snapshot to generate DB2 & SAP integrated Flashcopies https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6353361#req_stg ***note:NON ZOS RELATED BUT RFE WEBPAGE ONLY ALL...
almost 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

event filtering function on snmp trap in ESS

In ESS/Spectrum Scale GUI, there isn't any option to select the Severity of SNMP event message.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Not under consideration

Event log enhancements

Enhanced monitor of internal process and better detail on issues. Lack of reporting on critical internal components hinders determination of issues and recovery.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Choose wich disc to restore in Data Protection for Hyper-V

In Dataprotection for Hyper-V it would be very nice if we can choose wich disc to restore.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Display information about encryption technology used in GUI & CLI encryption command

Display information about encryption technology used in GUI & in CLI encryption command - which will help customer's cybersecurity team - requested by customer. Check this thread in slack # specv-sme-se = https://ibm-systems-storage.slack.com/...
almost 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

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