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Reduce ffdc ALL output size to always stay under 100GB

Disk space on the root filesystem in Spectrum Discover can be very limited, and when building support logs package for IBM support we need to ensure that the resulting log package is small enough to fit on disk, small enough to transfer off of the...
over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Not under consideration

RHV/oVirt support in Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments currently supports VMware and Hyper-V. This is a request for support of RHV/oVirt, as well.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Allow for creation of canned "Data Protection Report" but limited to selected Policy Domains

Allow for creation of canned "Data Protection Report" but limited to selected Policy Domains, across one or more TSM servers, which would include client related sections such as backup success rate, activity over 24 hours, protected clients and nu...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Hyper-V Cloud Backup

Here is my requirement for hyper-v cloud backup and restore. FYI: Net Backup have all these features. 1)      Simultaneous Guest backups on Cluster Shared Volume.2)      Follows a Guest around the ...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 5 Not under consideration

CSM estimated completion time via CSMCLI.

1. CSM estimated completion time via CSMCLI Of Flash Copy Command Hi, We would like to have a report generated with CSMCLI Command who will give the completion of the FlashCopy Ce can see dynamically the completion with GUI.But if we want to follo...
about 7 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

SP4VE FLR - interaction with CyberArk API for

Today, security is in the center of backup and even more recovery procedure. My customer, big insurance is asking that SP4VE is more integrated with security components and external authentication mechanism.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Support Lin_Tape Driver on RHLE 6.9 x86/64 for Product Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Family.

Need client support for updated Lin_Tape Driver on RHLE 6.9 x86/64 (v3.0.21.0) prior to official release in Nov 2017. Related to Current Crit AA1279 AND PMR 10768,082,000.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

FS900 attribute "-rebuildpriority hostmax" works out well for client = Can this attribute be implemented in FS7200 , as client was looking for this option in FS7200 ( A LUG requirement )

Pls consider this request as Urgent/High priority FS900 attribute "-rebuildpriority hostmax" works out well for client = Can this attribute be implemented in FS7200 , as client was looking for this option in FS7200 ( A LUG - Large User Group requi...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

SPP micro version

We are an IBM business partner and have small and large scale customers.Spectrum Protect Plus is set for 48 GB 1000 VMs with minimum ram requirement, but we also have many customers with 50 -100 VMs.These customers think 48 GB is too much for ram ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Restore by Tag

Hello, in case we want to restore a lot of server we must do it by rest api or by clic one per one each vms we want restore. It very painfull to do that. It would be great to restore using tag. If my environnement is balised with tags I should abl...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration