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Storage Protect Family

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Backup STGPOOL multiple processes for individual node

When running backup stgpool, I use 8 processes, however, if you have one very large node, it will not use multiple processes to backup that node, and when you're down to only one node left, it's a single-threaded process, using only one tape drive.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

List all volumes needed for restore

Maybe IBM can develop a tool for list all volumes needed to make a restore before it executes.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Error message by failover form IPv6 to IPv4

Every time a server switches from IPv6 to IPv4 it throws an error message. A warning would be more appropriate.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Resourcepool support for TSM VE

Support in TSM VE for creating schedules based on VMware resource pool. Now this is only possible on host, folder, cluster and datastore.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

IBM SP for Exchange not truncating logs after Exchange backup

Microsoft Exchange version is 2016 version 15.1 build 1591.10. We have implemented IBM SP for Exchange and have initiated several full backups. Backup completed successfully but not truncating logs.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Not under consideration

exclude.vmdisk into client option set (cloptset)

Currently, the exclude.vmdisk cannot be set centrally on the TSM server by using the cloptset.So if you have multiple data movers, you have to set it locally on each data movers.Currently, we are managing between 500 - 600 VMs, spawn on 4 virtual ...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Copy Data Manager needs to support Metro Mirror or Metro Mirror with Consistency volumes

CDM needs to support Metro Mirror in addition to global mirror change volumes. This would decrease the need for additional space on the primary storage.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Add Wait parameter to AUDIT VOLUME command

Add parameter WAIT to the AUDIT VOLUME command. If set to YES, the AUDIT VOLUME would wait until the process is finished before continuing with the next command or next line in the script.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Add support for EMC NVB using NDMP

Add support for EMC NVB to speed up NDMP Backups of EMC filer file systems
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

TSM - events tabel sql queries prb

Info from support:I've discussed the issue with our developers, and the symptom you see is caused by staging tables we are using to fulfill the SQL requests. I tried to confirm a perfoamnce APAR with them and I could open one if you insist, howeve...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

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