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Restore Performance of an SQL Database using ISP4VE

When using Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environment with Application Consistent Backup for SQL Databases, the restore Performance for SQL Database is far to slow.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Cloud Support for Spectrum Archive

Today, Spectrum Archive supports local and remote tape copies. The ability to send a copy to a cloud, either onsite or offsite, would also be beneficial.
over 7 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 5 Not under consideration

TSM Clean Frequency enhancement

Please allow a terabyte option in addition to gigabytes for the clean frequency for tape drives.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

TS7700 Logical WORM KPMG certification

Allow to configure retention period in data class, so volumes mounted in this class inherit this retention period. During the retention period, volumes cannot be scratched, deleted, ejected or overwritten. In addition, do not allow to decrease the...
over 7 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

Multiple COPY backup types for TDP for SQL

Currently there is one database backup type for daily backups (full/differential) and one for copy backups. DBAs often require backups to be held for other retentions, and this currently can only be done by creating multiple TSM nodes. Additionall...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

TS4500 access when LDAP enabled

TS4500 supports LDAP. It requires LDAP group with admin privileges to be created in Library as well as LDAP domain. After LDAP group creation and integrating access with LDAP the library is not accessible via local accounts. JPMC require both acce...
over 7 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement to OC when removing monitored server

Removing a spoke from hub causes error when custom report is defined for removed server. It would be useful to inform user about this or disable the report automatically. It would also be useful to be able to remove spoke from hub via OC.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Integrate Spectrum Archive into Spectrm Scale GUI

Integrate IBM Spectrum Archive monitoring into IBM Spectrum Scale GUI and mmhealth.IBM Spectrum Archive provide a Grafana Dashboard but would it be good to intregrate such graphs into Spectrum Scale GUI (migrate/recall, drive performance, etc) as ...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Not under consideration

IT Infrastruct Analyst

Based on the case TS003038751, we would like to suggest the improvement in the product IBM Spectrum Protect Plus hypervisor inventory. When I have some host in "maintainance mode" in Vsphere environment the jobs show a lot warmings logs because o ...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

TSM q proc command should show the node name or volume name which is processing

Whe the copy process for storagepool is running, i have no information which node is processing. I can happen, that 1 of x copy process is running much longer then other. The reason is, that on disk pool the copy process is working on node. It can...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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