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Add preview support to restore

Ability to run a restore in preview mode that outputs what would be restored if the restore was to be run with the given parameters. Ability to restore only those affected files into another location
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

dsmmigundelete command re-create stub files for individual files

When space management migrate file to TSM storage, a stub file created in place of the original file, in some case, user need to recover one or more stub files because it deleted by mistake, and if these file are not protect by B/A client, the onl...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 0 Not under consideration

SVC option to remove vdisk on schedule

Problem description: if vdisk deletions are requested, we always keep them an extra month ; this to prevent if a vdisk deletion was requested by mistake ; or to restore files from itCurrent workaround: we created some scripts to make this possible...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Volume Creation date and User data

We would like to see the ability to see the volume creation date and what user created the volume as a selectable field in the GUI
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

RENAME COLLOCGROUP command requested

Provide the ability to rename collocation groups with a command similar to RENAME COLLOCGROUP.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Add Comprehensive Spectrum Protect support for OpenStack

Our organization currently uses IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments for VMWare to provide data protection for VMware VM instances using the common vSphere web GUI inteface.The imminent direction for the organization is to move to the ope...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect (TSM) version 7.1.7 certification with Informix ONBAR 12.10

I want to know if the product Spectrum Protect (TSM) version 7.1.7 is certified to work with Informix ONBAR 12.10
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

snmp event testing functionality

One of my Expert care customers contacted me and specifically requested to submit a request for him to add the funcionality to be able to test snmp in future code releases. At the moment there is no such funcionality on FS7300 and they have to cre...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Allow V7000 monitoring using industry standard protocols

Allow monitoring of performance data using read-only credentials and industry standard tooling.
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Migration process should skip locked files

Under certain conditions, the TSM server will try to migrate volumes that are locked by client backup sessionsl and simply wait for the volume to free up. This happens on a long-running (slow) backdup, or when a session does not terminate properly...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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