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Mailbox Restore Browser functionality for Exchange 2016

I would like the Mailbox Restore Browser functionality added for Exchange 2016
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to use the "dedup_device" with TSM for ERP (DB2) Product

Customer backup its DB2 database with Sp. Protect (ex TSM) ; backup storage is ProtecTIER (IBM Open deduplication solution). In order to boost both backup / restaure performances and deduplication ratio the 'dedup_device' option has been be set up...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Not under consideration

Backup of VMs using 'View: Datastore' but it does not allow VM exclusion

Customer sets VMWare backup jobs to use View: Datastore He cannot exclude individual VMs from a datastore view (you cannot click on the datastore and browse to exclude VMs). He would have to assign the datastore to the SLA then go to View: VM and ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Web Client Access for TSM 815

Provide support for TSM web client connection to 815 TSM for NDMP data restore
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Planned for future release

GUI customization

OEM partners hope to customize the Scale GUI with specific logo. There is a scheme in GUI that still show IBM Spectrum Scale RAID logo on GUI dashboard. We need dev team to cook a total solution that allowing OEM partners to replace their product ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

SQL Service User per SQL instance

We're currently having a customer who wants to backup multiple SQL Failover Cluster Instances but don't want to specify only one service user for Spectrum Protect Plus which has all the sysadmin rights over all instances running in the SQL Cluster...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Present option for high performance Volume Group Snapshots

IBM i workloads and Epic Cache/Iris each have blueprints and best practices to use 64KB grain sizes for Thin Provisioned volumes and FlashCopy grain sizes. This is done with traditional FlashCopy and mkvdisk commands through the CLI. There are no ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

Make reports that are saved into the report folder available via the GUI

Many people don't login to the Control host when accessing Control, it's more common accessed via a web browser. If your environment hasn't been setup for email it makes accessing reports very difficult. Especially when you don’t want regular emai...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Future consideration

Command to release a PENDING volume to SCRATCH

When a tape library has used all its scratch volumes, the admin needs to make some tapes available to keep operations running. If there are no tapes that can be checked in, a possibility is to free up some already empty volumes in PENDING state. T...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

3 or more ISKLM IP address for TS7700

Intesa San Paolo, the biggest Italian Bank, with 3 Grids-3way installed, is asking for an ehancement for TS7700, related to ISKLM IP address.Custumer would like that more than 2 ISKLM IP address can be defined, at least 3.
over 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Planned for future release

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