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Messages Without Message IDs

A product family such as IBM Spectrum Protect has a great many components, each of which can have hundreds or even thousands of messages. With so many messages, the customer will need some method to find explanations. In general, many messages are...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

TSM aware of VTLs features (dedup and replication)

Copying client data using node replication requires a lot of bandwidth and many customers don´t want to use TSM dedup since they already have dedup atVTL levels (protectier and datadomain). It would be great if TSM server could be aware of VTL rep...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

RFE for GPFS - requirement for a non root user to be able to run their scripts under GPFS without errors / SELinux related

It seems like there is a limitation in GPFS that a non-root user may not modify extended attributes of a file unless they are in the "user" namespace.
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

Integrate Spectrum Archive into Spectrm Scale GUI

Integrate IBM Spectrum Archive monitoring into IBM Spectrum Scale GUI and mmhealth.IBM Spectrum Archive provide a Grafana Dashboard but would it be good to intregrate such graphs into Spectrum Scale GUI (migrate/recall, drive performance, etc) as ...
about 5 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Not under consideration

IT Infrastruct Analyst

Based on the case TS003038751, we would like to suggest the improvement in the product IBM Spectrum Protect Plus hypervisor inventory. When I have some host in "maintainance mode" in Vsphere environment the jobs show a lot warmings logs because o ...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

BA/API client: Call 'vssadmin list writers' only when necessary

Spectrum Protect Client (BA/API) V8.1.0.0 on Windows unconditionally calls 'vssadmin list writers'.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Periodic Backup of Backed up Data (Monthlies etc)

If a TSM administrator needs to take periodic, i.e. weekly, monthly, half year, year end additional copies of data other than 'file/unstructured' the administrator must currently create additional schedules to take additional copies. A lot of envi...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

TSM4VE - scheduling and tagging at VM granularity

Can we remove the following limitation ?Customer would like to use TAGGING at VM level, not at FOLDER level, without changing or replanning the whole VMs infrastructures.He would like to tag & schedule some VM to daily backup, some other (may ...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

TSM replication process duration

I think a duration parameter will be great with the replication process of TSM. Duration also exist with expiration, reclamation so why not implement this also with replication
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

If TSM hasn't got Full backup of SQL DB, raise Diff/log backup to Full

Now when a 'tdpsqlc backup diff' backup runs for a SQL db instance only DB's with existing Full backup are backed up. DB's that have just been created will make the schedule that starts the backup fail with an error in the tdpsqlc log like this: "...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration