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Autoskip integrity for Exchange DAG backups

An option like /AUTOSKIPINTEGRITYCHECK would be nice to have in Exchange DAG setups, so that the DP agent/FCM itself could check if the specified database/databases has/have 2 or more healthy copies - if it that would be the cause, it would automa...
about 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 3 Planned for future release

Tivoli Storage Manager For Virtual Environments Restoring a single VMDK

I am trying to restore just 2VMDKS ( 70GB in total) for a virtual machine but I fail if I do not have the storage capacity to restore the whole virtual machine ( approx 840GB) .
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

GPFS needs better contol over NSD IOs for mixed devices SSD + SATA

For a cluster that has a mix of SSD and SATA drives for different storage pools the current architecture queues IO to small (64K) and large queues. For the cluster I was examining we saw SSD IOs being blocked by slow SATA IOs on the NSD server for...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Enhance Installation Toolkit Support for Cluster with active usesudowrapper configuration

We are planing to Implement saveguard vault design with use of saveguard snapshots. One requirement here the cluster must use sudowrapper as a prerequisite to work and beeing secure.The ansible installationtoolkit has currently no support for sudo...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Restore Point in time to an alternate location or to the original SQL Server with a different name

Customer needs the functionality to restore a SQL database which was backed up using ISP4VE to an alternate location and to to a log roll forward until a specified point in time.Also the restore with a different SQL database name is required.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Storage Insights to include DS8 Hostconnect Column on HBA View

For the IBM DS8 systems, on the Related Resources > Hosts > HBAs view, there are columns for name/status/type/WWPN/IQN/Associated Drives, but the column that would be most helpful is to list the associated host that the HBA login is related to.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

TS4500 mini PC placement

I had the opportunity to watch the SSRs working on Call Home problem with the TS4500. I would like to suggest an engineering change on the IMC min PC physical placement for consideration. The IMC mini PC is placed at the bottom corner of the end f...
almost 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Not under consideration

TSM V6 database Reorg Status

The requirement is to be able to report the status and progress of database Reorg from within TSM rather than through DB2 (e.g. query database f=d - is it finished and if not how much more to run). Also it would be good to be able to schedule reor...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

add NetApp SnapVault Scheduling and File Indexing to SPP

In Spectrum Protect Plus it should be possible to trigger NetApp SnapVault snapshots to NetApp Secondary Storage Systems on Prem or on Cloud and to list existing snapshots and index the files they contain. Possible restores should also be triggere...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

TSM FileClient for high resolution displays

We use Lenovo X1 Notebooks with high resolution displays. The TSM Fileclient on the Notebooks with Windows 10 is tiny. Other application fit or could scale to the resolution.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration