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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...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Add CIFS/NFS to spectrum Virtualize

Hello,A lot of customers are disappointed with the lack of files protocols on midrange storage.With the end of sales of V7K unified we are facing a major issue. All competitors are providing equivalent solution, and I think that building a solutio...
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

BVIR maintenance integrated in zOS

BVIR delivers very good Reports, but is maintained outside of zOS. The Tapetools have to be downloaded, unpacked, installed, the already used JCL has to be checked for changes. The TS7700 is maintained with PTFs instead, as it is usual in zOS.
almost 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

DRP support for compressed volumes with Enhanced Stretch Cluster

Currently due to latency considerations on an Enhanced Stretch Cluster (SVC) we are unable to leverage DRP and use compressed and/or deduplicated volumes. 8-node SV1 enhanced stretch cluster, FC connected with X6-8 Brocade core switches and data c...
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale Management API Version 2 should support SMB exportacls

The Spectrum Scale management API Version 2 includes commands for managing SMB exports, like Create/Modify/Delete an SMB share.These command represent the 'mmsmb export' cli commands. The API Version 2 must provide an equivalent for the 'mmsmb exp...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Improvement of usability by implementing a HOST command in dsmadmc

By using a HOST command or special character, commands can be issued at operating system level and you do not have to log out of dsmadmc.
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Drive preference in a mixed-media library sharing environment

TSM supports multiple media types in a single library definition. It handles these through media type information reported by the physical library,combined with the drive read and write format lists provided by the drives. Unfortunately, in this c...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Spectrum Archive support for AFM DR

Hi, A Large Spectrum Scale customer in Israel who use AFM DR, asked us to find him a solution for archiving in the primary site. the customer asking this because he has more than 1PB relevant for archive in production site and he is willing to inv...
over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Not under consideration

Change of communication for instant mount/instant full restore for TSM4VE

When using Instant Mount or Instant Full Restore in TSM4VE, all communication should be initiated from the client towards the server.Currently, traffic will be initiated from the TSM server towards the vStorage backup server on TCP ports 1501 and/...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale GUI & API should support nested groups with LDAP/IPA authentication

Using nested groups (objectclass=nestedGroup) is a common feature of modern directories (e.g. Active Directory, FreeIPA/RedHat Identity Manager, and IBM Tivoli Directory Server ) and make it much easier to manage group memberships by adding a grou...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

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