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Ability to have -vmfolder include sub-folders

In a large organisation, vmware and tsm will have different people administering them. The ability to include sub-folders would allow more flexibility.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Not under consideration

Decomission Enhancements

We have been talking to multiple large clients regarding decommission feature.Decomission Node/VM is a great utility but it doesn't fully support all customers needs in it's current form. Decomission Node/VM should support the following options fr...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Virtualize - Assign or change SCSI ID for volume – removed in 7.6.GUI

Assign or change SCSI ID for volume – removed in 7.6 GUI. No option in the GUI to change or assign SCSI ID. Customer uses GUI almost exclusively - not CLI (only most experienced SAN Admin uses the CLI and then only when required. As the move thing...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Restore SVC GUI (7.6/later) to have Volume Overview tab with information as pre-7.6 changes

Volume Overview Tab – Appears when we right click a volume. Missing in 7.6. Please refer first screenshot in the below email. Unfortunately there is no equivalent to this in 7.6 and later. All the information is available only on different screens...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

NDMP on Library Client

Need to run NDMP backups on a Library Client.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

CSM Session Overview List - Sort by Name

Suggestion when discussing CSM with Jack Henry. Back with TPC-R we were used to having the Session List displayed first by Status, and then sorted by Session name. So, the active sessions are at the top, and the remaining sessions are sorted by na...
over 7 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Include preferred node ID in standard CLI-listing of all vDisks

Can we include the preferred node ID in the standard listing about all vDisks in the SVC cluster, which can be requested via CLI command -lsvdisk ? The averall listing should include this as standard output, but it could be de-selected by using fi...
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

TDP support for Microsoft SQL Server Express

We have several customer with a mix of Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008/2012 and editions express, standard and enterprise.To keep it simple we are using tdp to backup the sql servers. Sadly SQL Server Express isn't supported.It looks like the backu...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

TSM currently can recognized different file systems types. I woud like TSM by default to be able to recognize GFS2 file syste

TSM need to be able to recognize GFS2 file systems like it does with any other file system type seen by TSM. When TSM is installed and configured it should be able to see this file system with out any manually intervention. It should be a native s...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

Documentation update regarding Deduplication enabled Storage Pools using FILE Device Class type

Documentation update referencing the importance of proper storage pool "DATAFormat" type for DEDUPLICATION enabled SEQUENTIAL ACCESS Storage Pools of FILE Device Class. As the user defines Sequential Access Storage Pool of FILE Device Class type t...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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