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Multi-session retreive operations

As described in Technote 1571833. Multi-session restore functionality does currently not cover archive retreive operations. We need Multi-session retreive operations like for restores.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Relabel-On-Scratch option for external library manager

When TSM Server recycles (frees) a virtual tape of a VTL this is eliminated from the TSM DB, but not from the VTL. So statistics e.g. Dedup factor are distorted over time. To prevent from this the TSM Relabel-on-Scratch option was introduced. But ...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Planned for future release

nfsv4 kerberized solution

We would like a solution to get the better performance and security of NFSv4 in a kerberized environment. This solution is to be supported in IBM Spectrum Scale protocol nodes.
about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

EasyTier Pool new extent allocation on specific Tier

Build an option for SVC Easter pools so that we can set the allocation of new extents to a specific tier level.
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

TSM and Guard Point Backup Process

System: IBM TSM BA ClientActor: TSM AdministratorNeed: Update TSM BA Client TSM BA Client is used to backup and restore critical business data on thousands of servers nightly. Update the TSM BA Client for all Unix Platforms to backup and restore G...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Allow no lock control option on specific protocol exports

Some workloads do not need ensuring lock and an offering if parallel access will be needed or not (specially for CIFS). So for some workloads CTDB would not necessarily be used on all exports
about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

TSM should support the shared tapedrive feature of TS3500

TSM 7.1 on AIX 7.1 with TS3500 tape library. ANR8300E I/O error on Ts3500 tape library OP=(00006c03). I have 4 E07 tape drives in this physical library I have 2 logical libraries with the robotics and one tape drive assigned to each library, and t...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Message ANR0422W should be changed when an admin fails the connection.

Message ANR0422W should be changed when an admin fails the connection. This makes some reporting / alerting tools to believe that a backup may be configured incorrectly when it's clearly not the case.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Add Comprehensive Spectrum Protect support for OpenStack

Our organization currently uses IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments for VMWare to provide data protection for VMware VM instances using the common vSphere web GUI inteface.The imminent direction for the organization is to move to the ope...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Journal Based Backup Identification

Request is to be able to identify nodes using journal based backups from a query to the Spectrum Protect Server
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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