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TSM aware of VTLs features (dedup and replication)

Copying client data using node replication requires a lot of bandwidth and many customers don´t want to use TSM dedup since they already have dedup atVTL levels (protectier and datadomain). It would be great if TSM server could be aware of VTL rep...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM4VE - scheduling and tagging at VM granularity

Can we remove the following limitation ?Customer would like to use TAGGING at VM level, not at FOLDER level, without changing or replanning the whole VMs infrastructures.He would like to tag & schedule some VM to daily backup, some other (may ...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

SVC Autorestart should give timer indication in UI while suspended if it is set to restart.

CSM 6.1.x introduced the functionality of session restart during 1720/1920 type errors. There is also a way to set a timer on how long the session will attempt a restart. CSM should have an easier way to determine if the session is pending a resta...
over 7 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Periodic Backup of Backed up Data (Monthlies etc)

If a TSM administrator needs to take periodic, i.e. weekly, monthly, half year, year end additional copies of data other than 'file/unstructured' the administrator must currently create additional schedules to take additional copies. A lot of envi...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

SPP BUG - Unable to remove a Schedule from a Report

After defining a schedule on a report, the schedule cannot be removed. If you 'untick' the schedule there is no option to click 'Save'. For custom reports, the workaround is the delete the report and start again, but for the default reports there ...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Is a defect

Support Debian 9 with ISS 4 and 5

Support Spectrum Scale on Debian 8 and later for ISS 4.2.3 and 5.0.0 and later.
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Add deletfiles option in Archive in the New BA Web Client 3.0

Large Customer delegates a lot of Users as Self Service to use Backup and Archive Web Client to use Archive. They have a policy to delete files once archived files is completed.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

TSM replication process duration

I think a duration parameter will be great with the replication process of TSM. Duration also exist with expiration, reclamation so why not implement this also with replication
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

If TSM hasn't got Full backup of SQL DB, raise Diff/log backup to Full

Now when a 'tdpsqlc backup diff' backup runs for a SQL db instance only DB's with existing Full backup are backed up. DB's that have just been created will make the schedule that starts the backup fail with an error in the tdpsqlc log like this: "...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

Increase available information on Audit log screen and reinstate scroll bars

In Spectrum Virtualize 8.5.0.2 (SVC) the Audit log screen layout and functionality has changed compared to 8.4.0.6. Up until 8.4 there are 21 entries visible, on 8.5 this is reducted to only 10. Changing the row height (smaller) only adds addition...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration