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Spectrum Protect for HADOOP File System

There is a need for Spectrum Protect to protect Hadoop file system
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

DS8K HMCs should recommend regular power recycles

DS8K should recommend regular maintenance procedures for HMC power cycles to prevent hangs. This could be yearly, bi-yearly, etc., as long as it was a time period sufficient to prevent hangs due to unforeseen circumstances. This would prevent HMCs...
almost 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Backup of subdirectories within Windows CIFS SHARES recursively processed despite of deactivation with dsmc incr subdir=no

In spite of setting the option subdir=no for incremental file backup, mounted CIFS Shares on Windows File Server will be processed recursively. The reason for this behaviour is caused by an unsuccessful execution of the NetShareGetInfo function wi...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Is a defect

Add Support for Windows Directory Junction Links / symbolic links

We "extend" disks by creating Symbolic Links using Microsoft Windows mklink.exe command. i.e.mklink /j f:\DataF\Departments\CofE-PD\PRJ\Projects\2020 k:\Data\Departments\CofE-PD\PRJ\Projects\2020 This will Create a directory junction f:\DataF\Depa...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

.NET Wrapper for TSM API

A mono-project (http://www.mono-project.com/) wrapper for the TSM API is desirable, in order to ease development of utilities and add-ons to the TSM Server
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

add fromdate/todate option to the command "delete backup <vm> -objtype=vm "

the fromdate / todate option is available for many delete backup commands but not for -objtype=vm We had cases where the expire inventory did not cleanup the vm backups ( when using replicate node ) , in order to fix this , we have to use the dele...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Hide snapshot directory

Hide the snapshot directory by removing its entry from the readdir(3) system call and/or getdents(2) system call. Currently snapshot directories are not actually hidden, they are fully visible but just have a name beginning with a dot. That is jus...
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Automatically adjust agentless server names to match SVC host names

Automatically adjust agentless server names to match SVC host names.
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

Copy container pool to cloud pool

Spectrum Protect (TSM) currently does not support the use of cloud pools as protection for container pools. The Copy Container functionality should be enhanced to support the used of cloud pools (in addition to tape) as a way to protect an on-prem...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Remote Support Disconnect button

In the Support Assistance screen on FlashSystem our customer would like to have a disconnect button. We understand we can do this with the command line but the customer feels a button to disconnect in the GUI would be more helpful. On a call with ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

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