IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Backup Client for Debian Linux

    Debian und viele andere Linuxdistributionen (z.B. Ubuntu, Univention, Knopix, ...) nutzen nicht das RedHat Packeage format rpm, sondern ein anderes Format namens .deb. Damit ist man bei der Erstellung der Pakete immer auf zusätzliche Konvertierung...
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

    Add parm to allow some control over the calculation of available space to avoid false positive ANS1311E errors

    Add a parm that could specify the estimated amount of data reduction to use when calculating if the storage pool has sufficient space. so setting this parm to 75 would tell TSM to assume the pending backup is going to get at least a 75% reduction,...
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

    SP Command builer stand-alone port for windows/linux

    Create a stand-alone or dsmadmc integrated version for windows and/or Linux of the SP Command builder currently integrated in the SP-OC.
    about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

    Summary table not getting updated while there was no data transfer

    We have backup running daily for the node FITKUL0001. It seems that the data on this server rarely changes. Hence the backup runs successfully and no data is being transferred as there is no need to. So far it is fine for us as it is successful. T...
    about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    syslog receiver for linux

    Feature to allow TSM to externalise events through a reciver that can put events into syslog without the need for external scripting.
    about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

    Simultaneous backup to primary and copypool using lanfree.

    Simultaneous backup to primary and copypool using lanfree. Our customer is interesting in doing simultaneous backup to primary and copy storage pool.
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Copy Data Manager needs to support Metro Mirror or Metro Mirror with Consistency volumes

    CDM needs to support Metro Mirror in addition to global mirror change volumes. This would decrease the need for additional space on the primary storage.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    Advanced Analytics and cataloging for Spectrum Protect

    At present, Spectrum Protect does not seem to provide an advanced method of querying its database to find things such as duplicated files around the environment, file ownership, usage by owner, etc. This capability can make it difficult to find ob...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

    This applies to Spectrum CDM: Oracle settings after a restore

    When running a Spectrum CDM restore job that will mount an Oracle instance from a snapshot on a host, automatic Oracle setting coming from Spectrum CDM does not enable to restart automatically Oracle instance if the host is rebooted after the rest...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

    Move Data from old copy pool to new copy pool

    In order to handle tape media upgrades or tape recording format upgrades, customers need the ability to MOVE data from an old copy pool to a new copy pool
    about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

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