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Option to exclude VM folder in DOMAIN.VMFULL

DOMAIN.VMFULL all-vm;-vmfolder=DR-Machines,*TEST* -vmfolder will work in the same way as "-vm" excluding certain folders or folders containing som word
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Not under consideration

Enable Aspera for Spectrum Protect on AIX server

The initial implementation of Aspera with TSM will be on xLinux. Very few of our customers run TSM on xLinux. Most run TSM server on Windows and AIX, with larger installations on AIX. Aspera needs to be integrated with TSM on AIX server to support...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Allow DSMC Incremental to follow expiration logic of deleted files, even if using filelist parameter.

When a typical DSMC incremental backup identifies that a file is no longer there, it notifies the TSM server, which places the file in inactive state, which then puts the retention of that file under control of the policy settings for files in tha...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Snapshot backup attempted & error shows job failed,when only database snapshot failed,everything else backed up successfully.

Currently, a snapshot backup is attempted and it generates an error that the job has failed when really it hasn't, only the database snapshot has failed, all the other databases get backed up successfully. This results in additional overhead for a...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

Simultaneous backup to primary and copypool using lanfree.

Simultaneous backup to primary and copypool using lanfree. Our customer is interesting in doing simultaneous backup to primary and copy storage pool.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

FCM: User Interface

- Unified GUI for Unix/Linux/VMware/Windows- Show where (FCM, and/or TSM) the backups are and which backp-version of which application exist- Same look and feel like the TPC 5.1 WebGUI- WebGUI- Central interface for all FCM flavours- Optional Inte...
over 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

TSM backup client fails to restore directories that were "over quota" when the backup was performed

Novell NSS file system (on a SLES based server) has a feature called "directory quota". It is possible to set such a quota on a directory, such that the quota is lower than the amount of data currently stored within the directory. TSM will backup ...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

Enhance TDP for Oracle to enable an option to bypass the catalog and access inactive backups

Enhance the product (all TDP's for Databases but in this case specifically for Oracle) to enable recovery of inactive backups (not in the catalog).
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Discover Reporting

Spectrum Discover is a powerful and useful tool, however, the reporting capability needs to match the product capability.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum scale - Read only dos attribute behavior on chmod 444/644

mobileye recently migrated from SONAS to scale . IBM approved for the SOANS system RPQ for "read only dos attributes on chmod 444/666. Mobileye are asking for the same RPQ on scale . attached the documentation approval for SONAS.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

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