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Improve Function of TDP for Oracle to be a more effective MediaManager

When Oracle RMAN begins a restore it apparently asks the MediaManager for all the volumes that will be needed to restore all the 'pieces' of the backup. On a long-running restore, in the time between the restore starting and it getting to any spec...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

To develop a report that shows overall capacity consumed per user that adds up local and offline files and versions

Current quota management on Spectrum Scale only considers consumed space of local files. With the introduction of features such Transparent Cloud Tiering for COS, it is needed a control over the space users are consuming for both local and offline...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center - Security granularity

IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center - Security granularity
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

TSM Script Editing feature that was in the Administration Center to be in Operations Center

would like the TSM Script Editing feature that was in the Administration Center to be in Operations Center.The Admin Center Script editor was pretty “low function”, but at least it allowed changes and cut and paste. And it had a nice syntax checki...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Add an option to remove configuration mode in TSM4VE

We user the TSM4VE GUI to restore VM and files. At login the configuration mode is checked by default. If the user forget to uncheck it, he enters in the configuration wizard. We are supposed to use the VMWARE Plugin to restore but we have two TSM...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect and Spectrum Scale compatibility

Customer would like to avoid having to use SKIPACLUPDATECHECK And UPDATECTIME attributes in Spectrum Protect when backing up Spectrum Scale data
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

REST API Commands in Scale GUI Tasks

When completing tasks in the Spectrum Scale GUI in addition to showing the CLI commands, the equivalent REST API commands would be shown as well. This will help with users who may want to use REST API calls to complete Spectrum Scale management ta...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

HW Snapshot support in SPP for HPe 3PAR

Customer (a large SP and competition (mainly for VMware) user) is running an RFI concerning backup/recovery. Part of this RFI is protection of VMware. Customer is using HP 3PAR hardware for their VMware vSphere enviroment.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

FCM for VMware: Support for multiple vCenters

Today (v.4.1.2) FCM for VMware can be connected to one vCenter only. This implies that clients have to deploy one FCM for Vmware installation for each vCenter. This RFE is to support multiple vCenter with only one FCM for VMware installation.
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

Cross platform migration: Linux x86 to AIX

Allow TSM to restore its database from a Linux x86 server to an AIX server.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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