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Incremental Restore

It would be useful if TSM for VE provided "incremental restore" functionality, using the Change Block Tracking feature, so as to perform a restore of a VM by only restoring data which has changed since a specific point in time.This is possible wit...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Utilization percentage of areas used by the product to store indexes should be displayed in the main product GUI. Not displaying this in a simple and readily available form can result in granular recoveries not being possible

If the utilization for the areas containing the lucern database (/data3 by default) was displayed within the main GUI it would be much simpler to keep track of issues that may affect recovery options further down the line. This would benefit all b...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

AIX update Spectrum protect server instal manual to set maxuproc='4096'

I tried to "su" to tsminst1 userid, and got the following message.0403-030 the fork function failed. Too many processes allready exist.ulimit -Hc , Hd, Hf, Hn, and Ht allready set to unlimited.I ran the following command;lsattr -E -l sys0 -a maxup...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Publish TSM client software via yum repository

Currently, it's possible to download the latest client-related TSM software packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS at ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/patches/client/v7r1/Linux/LinuxX86/BA/ It would be even better i...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 1 Not under consideration

SPP automatically deleting Job ID when all VMs/Datastores are deselected

Spectrum Protect Plus when removing datastores or VMs from an SLA policy if you remove all the SLA policy goes into a "deleted" state on the back end and when you assign a new datastore even if it was the same one it creates a new Job ID and does ...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Migrate object storage to tape

For the upcoming object interface in Spectrum Scale it should be possible to migrate object data to tape.
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Add log collection as a one time action for custom alerts

There are many problems the support teams work on that require detail log collection at a time very close to an given performance event. It is difficult for customer operations teams to be able to accomplish this. Support currently supplies script...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

NFS V4.2 Support

We need support for NFS V4.2 On the one hand, NFS V4.0 face major issues, and on the other hand in our use case we could strongly benefit from the new 4.2 features like "server-side-copy" and "sparse files"
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Support for Domino Protect for Mail (TDP) for Ubuntu

Domino is supported on a range of Linux operating-systems. But this requires also backup solutions to be available for those Linux platforms. Domino on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is getting more and more attraction and should be supported b TDP.
10 months ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 0 Under review

Add Broadcom SAS 3808/3908 HBAs in Scale ECE

One of OEM partners are planning to replace existing SAS 3108 HBA with SAS 3808/3908 HBAs. But we didn't find SAS 3808/3908 HBAs in the support list of ECE 5.1.9. The partner hope IBM can support SAS 3808/3908 HBAs in the next release. They can pr...
10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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