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    Need support of Power 9 Compression HW chip on AIX Client for TSM Server and Client

    Hellowe have implemented a new Backup LAN with CISCO ACI Network 40 GBit and made backup over this seperate lan to tsm serverWe need to do a compression on the TSM Client side because the TSM Servers has currently not the capabilities to store unc...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    CSM ability for more than two CSM servers in configuration sharing a common database and staying in synch. Active/Active

    3. The ability two have more than two Servers actively sharing the same CSM database. As an Active/Active instead of an Active/Standby configuration. The ability to have more than two servers join the same CSM configuration and stay in Synch with ...
    over 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Session recovery via query

    CSM is currently designed to stop monitoring underlying replication in an event where certain types of communication failures occur with a subsystem (say after panic/warmstart). It's designed this way to not inadvertently monitor relationships tha...
    about 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

    Use the logged on User ID from the CSM GUI for authority checking rather than the STC user from the CSM Server

    If an update is made from the (e.g.) portpairing.csv from the CSM Web Interface (Version 6.2.8) there is no security checking whether if this user has the necessary permission to update this file. The update will be with the STC User from the CSM ...
    over 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 6 Not under consideration

    Copy Data Manager Support for Oracle ACFS on AIX and Linux

    Oracle's new filesystem implentation is called ACFS, taking over ASM. CDM supports virtual ACFS on Windows. Need to have support for physical filesystems on AIX and Linux supporting ACFS
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Planned for future release

    Improve SVC/Virtualize FC session capabilities

    SVC/Virtualize FC sessions in CSM provide just basic capabilities for FC management. This limits users for building more complex FC solutions or provisioning capabilities. Especially when using Space Efficient volumes, or when cascaded / multi-tar...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    S3 Object Agent: Allow non ISPP application the use of "coldpool"

    In the actual release of Spectrum Protect (8.1.12) the use of the "coldpool" in a Object Domain of Spectrum Protect is limited to the archive feature of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus.External S3 clients are can only use a directory container pool as a...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    Node Replication & DR - Enable client backup to the Target TSM Server

    Enable the BA/TDP clients to send backup data to the target server in case of a failure of the primary server (node replication enabled)
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

    A new policy update from BA client .optfile that does not allow overwrite a management class from BA client.

    A server admin can update the .optfile from BA client by human error causing an overwrite of a management class at Spectrum Protect server, that is causing unexpected expiration of backups. For example, a configuration mistake pointing the .optfil...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Future consideration

    access to the object is denied backup error does not fail a snapdiff backup.

    Snapdiff backup shows completed successfully even when encountering ANS4007E access to the object is denied. This error should result if a backup failure. If access denied shows up at directory/volume level then no data may be backed up hence defe...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

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