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More ways to get occupancy on data en dedup storage

In a hosted environment it would be nice, if there were several different/more advanced ways to get occupancy amount for data stored in deduplication storage pools.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Planned for future release

Support LTFS 2.5 Function incremental Index

To enhance the migration Performance and reducing the overhead on update the index partition on tape the function incremental index should be implemented.
over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Planned for future release

Ability to create a cascade of clones that are independent from each other

If a database was cloned with FlashCopy Manager and this clone (D1) serves as source for another clone (D2) it is currently not possible to refresh D1 without deleting D2. For some scenarios this restriction has technical reasons. But by using ful...
about 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Planned for future release

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...
over 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 3 Planned for future release

Temporary Threshold Removal for any Cache Partition

Enable Temporary Threshold Removal on Models TS7770 - VED-Tape attached for all Cache Partitions CP0-7.
almost 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Planned for future release

TSM Server version history

Sometimes it is necessary to known what time you did run which version on your TSM server. For example when you may affected by an APAR(IC71049) which should be fixed in the current version you are running, but you still have older volumes affecte...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Planned for future release

Exchange 2013 support with TSM

Target date to support Exchange 2013 with TSM for Mail
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Planned for future release

Enabling the ESS storage with Compute Express Link CXL 3.0 or CXL 4.0 for storage and processing based on CXL Fabric

CXL 3.0 is built upon the IBM OpenCAPI, but CXL3 and CXL 4 have more speeds and will achieve the following: 1- Enabling the Interconnection between IBM LinuxONE and Exa scale AI Data Centers based on Nvidia DGX H100 based on Nvidia H100 GPUs and I...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Planned for future release

FCM - Managing Multiple SQL instances from one console

There are 2 instances of SQL which have been configured with 2 separate optfiles as per the old standard however the Flashcopy manager gui defaults to use the dsm.opt file in c:\program files\tivoli\tsm\tdpsql folder. We need to have separate shor...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Planned for future release

SPP integration n the IBM Resiliency Orchestration tools (IRO/CRO)

We have an urgent request from a Bank in Spain in UK to have IBM SPP integrated in the IBM Resiliency Orchestration tools (IRO/CRO) We heard that there are plans fro Q3 2019 but the customer will not accept this and wants the integration to happen...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

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