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Exclude VMs from VM-Backup in connection with a CloptSet

a function like Exclude.VM which excludes complete VMs from Backup serial able (not overwrites value before) / chain able / like other excludes In combination with a ClientOptionSet on the TSM-Server
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Archive log utilization query

TSM 6.1 and up have no way to show the archive log utilization in the admin client. This seems to be an oversight. The query log command should be able to display this info. It should also be available via a select statement. The only way to get t...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

Global Mirror with Change Volume --> dynamic increase

Protection against Cyber attack --> SGC installation requires a Remote Copy relation to a third FlashSystem. GM with CV is one of the options to avoid impact to the primary storage. The connected AIX VIO hosts need an easy way to increase volum...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Planned for future release

enhancement to the query system command

Using q sys to collect serverinfo is a good way to gather information in case a PMR is opened.There are however a few things i'm missing in this command.1) For copygroups it's not possible to see the destination stgpool, either includeq copyg * ac...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

mmauth grant should also work for already mounted clusters

mmauth grant ... -a ro requires a remount on the remote side (which is not documented, BTW). This is a problem as the remote cluster may not be controlled by you.
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Auto tuning in AFM of afmNumFlushThreads

Our organisation are extremely heavy users of the AFM technology atop GPFS/SpectrumScale. We host thousands of AFM file-sets inside GPFS filesystems. The nature of the utilisation of each fileset is almost completely unique and individual. The pro...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

FLR from VM target replicated via Vsnap

In case that SLAs which replicate the backups. Then, if SPP restores a file or directory, this file or directory is always restored from the Vsnap source in case of the Vsnap replication. It should have the option to restore the file from Vsnap so...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Better handling of fragments during backup storagepool

When copying data to a copy pool, all (or large parts of) the copied data can be rolled back, if some - but not all - fragments of a super-aggregate is among the copied data. This can happen if the backup storagepool process is deliberately stoppe...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

REPLICATE NODE - option to mark on the remote server only the expired data

REPLICATE NODE command does not have an option to replicate (mark on the remote server) only the expired content.The expired content of a nodename is processed during the scan of the nodename, sometimes it seems that it is processed at the end of ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

Add zstd as a compression option

It's great to have lz4 and Z as compression options but it would be nice to additional some additional compression options such as zstd.
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

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