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Generate Backupset enhancements

We use the Generate Backupset option for long term offsite storage. With this we use Nodegroups to capture depending on how long a set should be kept for. What would be nice is if: A) reporting was a little more accurate...when a set runs I'll hav...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Change of compression method in TSM Client API

Background:The backup takes too long time (did not complete within backup window).The restore and recovery takes too long time. They investigated if compression of the SQL Server data can help to fulfill the backup and restore time, and figured ou...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 5 Not under consideration

Admin API

Please document and open the admin api to the server. There seems to be an API which is used eg. by Tivoli Integrated Portal as I can see XML in tcpdumps. Maybe you still use something like SOAP. So providing an WSDL and/or Interfaces to .NET and ...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

TSM unable to recover file space if directory has been changed to symbolic link

If a directory is changed to a symbolic link on a zLinux server then TSM does not expire the director but continues to keep its backup as current. This causes a problem doing a restore because TSM client attempts to restore both the directory and ...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Advanced OVM integration with Spectrum Protect

IBM have signed a new customer on board. The customer is embarking on a significant shift of its estate to an Oracle Supercluster platform, making use of Oracle Virtual Machine (OVM). The customer wants to ensure that the Data Protection platform ...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Global Mirror with SEV target disks

SVC should "reset" the volume space to the specified real capacity when a volume is used as a target volume in a GM relationship, like SVC is doing this for flash copy: when you Flash Copy data to a SEV target disk SVC "resets" the target disk, so...
almost 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

TSM Spectrum Protect Integrated/Native High Availability Capability

Native TSM high availability. If a TSM Server fails in any way, the TSM Clients, Backups, Restores, HSM and other TSM production, can continue, maybe on another server, maybe a pool of TSM Servers that take over.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Allow vendors to develop snapshot provider for *nix Spectrum Protect Snapshot

Allow PaaS providers to exploit Spectrum Protect Snapshot by providing a device adapter to interface SPS with with their platform's proprietary storage layer.
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Oracle Database Cloning improvements in FCM

Two enhancements are requested. 1) Currently FCM requires environment variable ORACLE_HOME to be set in the users environment right after logon. We request that FCM should read this value from /etc/oratab so that we can have a single user for mult...
almost 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 4 Planned for future release

TSM Data protection for VMware FLR interface performance Improvement

We are using the FLR interface for recovering files from DP for VMware snapshot backups. From the FLR interface login page, after the click on "connection" button, it's take a long time (nearly 3 minutes) to display the next pages. Is it possible ...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

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