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Exclude VMs from VM-Backup in connection with a CloptSet

a function like Exclude.VM which excludes complete VMs from Backup serial able (not overwrites value before) / chain able / like other excludes In combination with a ClientOptionSet on the TSM-Server
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Improve Spectrum Protect Snapshot for Unix to leverage Oracle BCT for offloaded tape backups

Spectrum Protect Snapshot for Oracle supports mounting a FlashCopy target set to a backup server (auxiliary server) and to perform rman incremental level 1 offloads to a Spectrum Protect server from there. In order to identify the changed blocks i...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Future consideration

Allow V7000 monitoring using industry standard protocols

Allow monitoring of performance data using read-only credentials and industry standard tooling.
almost 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Select All function in search result of BAClient GUI for NAS restore

Select All function in search result of BAClient GUI for NAS restore
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Fibre Port Control from GUI on FS900 AE2/AE3 and FS9150

Prudential is asking for the following, in regards to the FS900s, and FS9150s: "There should  be a distinction between, Offline (link failure), Inactive(admin Down), Online and SFP not present status. And user should have ability to change th...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Migration process should skip locked files

Under certain conditions, the TSM server will try to migrate volumes that are locked by client backup sessionsl and simply wait for the volume to free up. This happens on a long-running (slow) backdup, or when a session does not terminate properly...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

FICON support for SVC

Problem description: No ability to provision storage from SVC to MainframeCurrent workaround: None
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

TS7700 should allow batch commands for PVOL movement

We have had numerous times where we needed to issue commands to a large number of pvols in our VTS's. We would like the ability to issue the commands to PVOLs through a batch interface so we don't have to spend large amounts of time in the GUI.
almost 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

No confidential information may be part of the storage snap transfered to support team.

Call Home SVC at level 7.6.1.5 The customer is a weapons company with very restrictive confidentiality rules. This company is requesting that, for Storage snaps transfers to support teams, no confidential information may be part of the transfer (l...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Restore Performance of an SQL Database using ISP4VE

When using Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environment with Application Consistent Backup for SQL Databases, the restore Performance for SQL Database is far to slow.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration