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Support for MS SQL 2016

We are starting to use MS SQL 2016.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Delivered

pre-format setting of storwize volumes

Add the possibility to specify pre-format option for storwize volumes (vdisks). In storwize 7.6.x the default is to pre-format every volume which is not needed in all the cases.We are mostly working with IBM i systems attached to storwize systems ...
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Add description fields to GUI and CLI to store information about host and LUN

It would be nice to have description fields in the GUI (and CLI as well) where you can place some kind of logical information about a host and LUN. It maybe different at customer sites, but as all Servicelines within SSO have their specialism, we ...
almost 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Support Database volumes on NFS

Even though using NFS is supported by DB2, it is not supported nor recommended for TSM. The following show the supported devices for DB2https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21470193 The following shows TSM's supporthttps://www-304.ib...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Delivered

Feature Request: allow two LDAP Active Directory domain searches

Referencing PMR 15924,999,866 from our storage support vendor, the version 4.1.1.5 patch is working successfully for us on the Windows client when looking up UID on 1 active directory domain. This ticket is to request a feature to expand the LDAP ...
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

TSM incremental backups of Hyper V .vhd files

Currently, TSM can only perform FULL backups of Microsoft Hyper V VHD files. Most of the competition (Netbackup, Commvault, DPM) can perform Incremental Backups of these files. Can we implement Change Block Tracking/Incremental backups for Hyper V...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Delivered

TDP agent Exchange 2010 DAG awareness

1. TDP agent aware of all the nodes in the DAG cluster so that they would be visible from any TDP agent GUI in the cluster. 2. TDP agent acts as the conductor on DAG setups when performing backup so backups can be started in parallel on each windo...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 5 Delivered

Allow SpecV systems to expand volumes without formatting in OpenStack

Allow volume expansion to use nofmtdisk option as well, or change the default of expandvdisk to the option used in the mkvdisk.
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Client Support for MAC OS 10.7 (Lion)

We would like to get TSM Client Support for MAC OS 10.7. We have some clients with that version we need to backup.
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 5 Delivered

Compression algorith on TS7700

We have lost several deasl against EMC solutions just because of the pricing.While we are having compressions 2-3x, they use to obain 6-10x, so our solution is much more expensive than EMC one.We have explained TS7700 bebefits, automation, cloud-l...
almost 9 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Delivered