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Spectrum Data Copy Management should be able to skip client cleanup

It should be possible to cancel an active restore to a target without CDM cleaning up the target system. This could be a check box to indicate that the admin is responsible for manual cleanup before initiating the cancel.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

DS8k Metadata volume

On 8/3/2018 the HPFE in our DS8886 lost two drives at the same time, in the same rank. To recover we had to delete the entire storage pool because there is a volume of meta data for each storage pool, and that pool happened to land it on the faili...
over 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Incremental backup support in NDMP based backup for IBM TSM 7.1.

Require Incremental backup support for NDMP based backup in IBM TSM.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM for VE support of VRA

TSM support for vRA (VMware vRealize Automation Center) based VMs
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Add TSM4VE control files to TSM DB

Currently a diskpool is required to hold control files for TSM4VE backups. This data would be much easier to manage if it were located directly in the TSM DB
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Mailbox restore wizard

The procedure of restoring item level requires me to install TDP for Exchange on one of the DAG nodes and start the mailbox restore wizard. Unfortunately you HAVE to install TDP for Exchange on the DAG node.In our days customers wants to remove an...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Not under consideration

Rebinding Archives between management classes

We have two managment classes for archiving data; one mgmt class expires archives after twelve months (temp mgmt class) and the other does not expire archives( never expires). We have a requirement to set some of the archives under temporary mgmt ...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

Enforce Volser ranges explicitly when they are present.

In the TS4500 library software if volser ranges are configured, I would like the library software to explicitly enforce these volser range rules. If a tape is entered that does not fall within the volser range rules the tape is treated as a foreig...
over 6 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

Individual File Restore Security (SSH)

Individual File Restore under Linux currently requires a passwordless ssh access from any client which wants to use individual file restoreto a Windows machine as user Administrator. This rises multiple implications: Security: You can log in to th...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Replication: enable TCP Window Scaling

Based on information in the PMR and simulations it appears that the replication is using a fixed TCP Window size. Please consider enabling TCP Window Scaling to allow bigger transfers speeds.
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

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