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"Cancel Process all" command in Spectrum protect

Would be great if "cancel process all" command in TSM/Spectrum Protect is introduced.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

TSM4VE UI Support for mulitple Spectrum Protect server instances

the current TSM4VE Web UI or plugin does not support the distribution of VM backup data of 1 datacenter to multiple Spectrum Protect instances. Nowadays VM datacenters have reached sizes which require to have more than 1 Spectrum Protect instance ...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

NFS V4.1 Support

Need support for NVS V4.1
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

TDP for Database SQL

ISP Server V8.1.11ISP Client V8.1.9TDP for Database SQL 8.1.9 AlwaysOn DB configured on TDP for Database SQL with11 Instance (Active/Inactive) containing more than 70 SQL Database using MMC. Problem:When doing selective Restore (Active and Inactiv...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

FlashSystem NAS

Japanese VAD. I am afraid this is a simple question.Why is it that only IBM does not have a NAS that can be bought for about 1 to 2 million yen?FlashSystem's FCM is excellent as block storage.However, we are often told by our Japanese customers.In...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Show various command line options and/or help options for dsmserv using -h or --help flag

The proposal is provide -h or --help option for storage protect server command line. Storage Protect Server can be started with various options. Currently the user has to go through SP documentation to know these options, as the command line does ...
6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Increase number of extents per cluster

Currently a system with extent size of 1 GiB does only support a managed capacity of 4 PiB. We need more scalability without using a larger extent size, e.g. managed capacity of 8 PiB with an extent size of 1 GiB.
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

S3 target on DS8

Consolidation of infrastructure (storage) on to a single platform
4 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Enhancment to replicate node commando to only replicate nodes in send or sendsync mode

I try to create setups without and errors or warnings from housekeeping scripts.I also try to work with opt-out mechanisms as much as possible for customers that agree to use that backup philosophy. When you build a two-way replicating Spectrum Pr...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

CTDB Enhancement 50/5000 to ensure an uninterrupted upgrade to new Release levels

The problem with the SMB upgrade is with the data shared between the protocol nodes. It is not tied to the protocol version used between SMB clients and the protocol nodes. Samba stores internal data (e.g. for the SMB state of open files) in tdb d...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

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