IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Data Integrity Verification during storage pool hierarchy (copy/migration)

    We use IBM TSM for our long term data archives (company asset), and we regularly copy the primary storage pool (tape) to copy-storage pool (tape), mainly for Disaster Recovery. In addition, IBM TSM migrates data from pool to pool as a regular proc...
    about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

    Oracle ACFS Support for Copy Data Management

    Navy Federal Credit Union (NFCU) is evaluating CDM v2.2.9 for Oracle. SQL has passed the eval. Oracle is running ACFS as the standard at NFCU. Looking for CDM support for ACFS
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    SP / SPP integrated with CyberArk

    Many customers are using cyberark to protect the access to the systems. it is a requirement from a large couple of customers.
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    add support for PowerHA AIX cluster configuration for File system backup and restore

    DCU (Customer) did a CDM snapshot across the 2 AIX servers. Then a situation came up where they had a need to do a restore and it failed with the exception “com.catalogic.ecx.ibmsvcprovider.exception.IBMSVCExecCommandException: CMMVC9071E: Cannot ...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

    send encrypted backups through tdpve iffull/ifincr method

    send tdpve client backups with method iffull and ifincr encrypted to server as it was with methods full and incr before
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

    OpenStack back-up with Spectrum Protect

    Customer VW (Volkswagen) Financial Services (VWFS) is in charge for managing the cloud solution for the entire VW corporation, which is based on OpenStack.VWFS is a loyal IBM Spectrum Protect customer. VWFS approached us with the request for a bac...
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    Reallowing non-root Spectrum Scale connections to Spectrum Discover after ESS security enhancements

    Spectrum Scale connections are considered the most effective way to provide metadata from IBM ESS storage to Spectrum Discover since both systems are IBM-based. The following IBM video guide outlines the steps for correctly set up Scale connection...
    about 4 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Functionality already exists

    Allow snapdiff backups of NetApp CIFS volumes containing widelinks

    TSM uses NetUseEnum() to determine if a NetApp CIFS share is connected before attempting a snapdiff backup. When run on a NetApp CIFS volume with widelinks, it results in the following error: ANS2831E: Incremental by snapshot difference cannot be ...
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

    Missing time stamp

    It seems obvious to us that it would be useful to know when the scanning of a Qtree has ended. The only existing keys to date are NameStatusMessageScan_recordsIndexed_recordsPhaseTotal_phases The endpoint we are looking at is sd connmgr/v1/scan/QT...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

    Log backup of SQL system databases

    Log backup of SQL system databases should be supported in Spectrum Protect Plus
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

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