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FlashCopy Manager - enable higher values for SVC_COPY_RATE

Please increase possible values for parameter SVC_COPY_RATE to numbers higher than 100.
about 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Future consideration

TSM &HSM independently backup data & metadata

It is about making TSM (SpectrumProtect) and HSM ready to deal with large number of files and huge data pods by doing backup of data independently from meta data.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Prioritising tape replication by catagory/dataclass

Currently data replication is performed on a fifo algorithm so as soon as a tape is available and there is a spare replication thread the tape will start to replicate. We have a situation where we have batch jobs that use a tape category for large...
over 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Site locations to inherit the location of the devices

Have sessions inherit the site locations that are configured for the devices that are involved in the session. Currently the site locations are custom fields that could be set to any text. You can select any location even ones that don't match the...
over 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

No comma's in session and process numbers

For almost 20 years I work with ADSM/TSM/ISP I'm super annoyed that you can't do an easy copy/paste of the session or process number to the cancel command if the number is higher then 999 Please remove the comma when you do a query session or quer...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

RFE 51: Automated vdisk mirroring functionality

One of the big advantages SVC offers is the ability to non-disruptively move vdisksbetween backend storage arrays - SVC pools. However this is currently a manually intensive process and requires the administrator to start and stop vdiskmirrors. Th...
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

TS7700 and VEHSTATS tool - ORDERALL member

Today, for each new version of VEHSTATS tool, the customer have to manually customize a new ORDERALL member which is time consuming (ORDERALL member is around 1200 lines today), fastidious, with a high risk of errors.The customer wish to have the ...
over 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 3 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus - Support of Oracle Database on Windows Server

Ability to backup Oracle databases (11gR2+) running on Windows servers.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Provide options within SP to use SCSI commands to work with the tape operations, like mount a tape, unmount a tape, move tape from one slot to another etc

This is required for day to day operations, and this option is pretty much available with all other backup product vendors Refer - https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100022873 IBM case Ref - Case: TS016303198 (ibm.com)
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Functionality already exists

Spectrum Protect Operation Centre export/import custom Report

Spectrum Protect Operations Manager keeps the custom report in the hub server in a scratch table. When moving the hub to another server there is no easy way of exporting and importing into another hub server.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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