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TSM for Virtual Environment Linux file level restore improvement

Almost all customers and partners complains about the complexity and the difficulty to perform Linux file level recovery with TSM for Virtual Environment. They need a simplified recovery procedure (with or without i-SCSI) to access to a volume for...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Planned for future release

disable encryption during replication

We provide datacenter service, enterprise backup and disaster recovery services to our customers. That's why we need to backup our customers' data under the SLA we have committed.As we tested we are not satisfied about Spectrum Protect Plus's repl...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

Parameter to exclude powered off virtual machines

The rule based inclusion- and exclusion parameters for TSMVE 6.4 works very well. However we would like to have the ability to exclude virtual macines that are powered off.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Planned for future release

Add functionality to Python SDK for Spetctrum Discover

When run in OpenShift, every pod that uses the SDK seems to require root privileges because the SDK mounts data connections under /nfs-scanner/. We have some Python scripts that use the SDK to work on files and apply tags to them in Spectrum Disco...
over 1 year ago in Storage Discover 0 Planned for future release

Multi Vendor Support for Snapshots in FCM/TSM

Snapshot-based DP for Applications (with a broad Application Support, including Replication Control to a secondary Storage, for virtual and native Servers, including Application driven Single File Restores and Catalog Support) is seen more and mor...
over 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 4 Planned for future release

Spectrum Protect on LinuxOne with RHEL 8.x

LinuxOne is proposing for Oracle database consolidation, Spectrum Protect is a key component to provide data backup and recovery. The compatibility of Spectrum Protect on LinuxOne with RHEL 8.x is essential for the proposal.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Planned for future release

Reintroduce Topology View

Reintroduce end-to-end topology view.
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Planned for future release

Possibility to manage tivoli clients schedule with tivoli operations center

Tivoli Storage Manager operations Center will be the new Administration gui and reporting for Tivoli Servers, unfortunately mange clients schedule (like create new schedule for a client or change begin backup time) is not possible at the moment wi...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Planned for future release

Fix issue causing DRM volumes to be checked out without being updated in DRM

It is difficult to word a requested problem fix as an RFE, but that is what I've been asked by support to do, so here is my best effort. Use of the “Wait” parameter of the BACKUP STGPOOL command is currently the best option to ensure that disk sto...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Planned for future release

Need FS9200 to support SCSI PR Read Full Status at SPC-3 Standard

Client wishes to implement FS9200 with RHEL HA Clustering. For success they need FS9200 to support Read Full Status Service action (03h) and perhaps yet unknown other functionality that comes with SPC-3.
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

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