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    why exclude.dir not favor archive?

    why exclude.dir not favor archive?and there is no other option for exclude dir for archive backup.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

    SCDM - RFE title Granular LDAP queries than trying to scan in the entire AD Domain.

    Storage Copy Data Management - We currently cannot handle scale for the amount of LDAP groups that are being attempted to be loaded for a case. Based on the error displaying an "out of memory" error message, it appears that the issue is related to...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Worm requirement to honor the TMC expiratoin date when a volume is created.

    Wells Fargo has a TS7700 related Worm requirement that would have the Ts7700 honor the expiration date specified by the Tape Management Catalog when a volume is created. This would prevent the volume from being inadvertently or maliciously scratch...
    almost 7 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    GPFS supports the dirsync mount option

    Our bussinuss architure is like FuseClient --> FileServer(GPFS NativeClient)-->GPFS. IBM GPFS does not support dirsync mount option in Linux. GPFS Native Client will save the dir meta changes(create/mknod/link/unlink/rename...) in cache. The...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    TSM reports RC4 rather than RC12 Failed when an NFS volume mounts okay, but permission to underlying directories is denied

    NFS share backup scheduled backup not reporting a failure when TSM server cannot back up directory due to permission denied. The event table reports the schedule with a return code 4. The permission to the underlying directories (NetApp qtrees) mo...
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    this applies to Spectrum CDM: Show Jobs IDs and SLA Policies IDs in CDM GUI

    Client remark: When a user defines in Spectrum CDM GUI a new backup or restore job, and also when a user defines a new "SLA Policy", a unique ID is assigned to the job and a unique ID is assigned to the SLA Policy. Both IDs are used @ storage subs...
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Future consideration

    TS7700 Add ability to configure ciphers

    User requesting new capability - be allowed to configure ciphers within acceptable cipher set.
    almost 7 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    TS77xx Library Manager search virtual volume add smfid or system name where volume was last used

    Currently, when searching the vitual volume via Library Manager or via IP address Management Interface, or when issuing LI REQ,lib-name,LVOL,volser command from z/OS, the information that is received does not include where the last system where th...
    almost 7 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect Plus: can only search for databases, not SQL Servers or instances.

    From our DBA:"For SQL backup, how do I search by server or SQL Instance name? Currently, I can only search by a database name. When a SQL Instance has more than one databases, how do I select a SQL Instance and run the backup so that it will backu...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    support Datamover and Proxy 8.1.6 on Windows Server 2016 SAC (not LTSC)

    Consider to add support for Windows Server 2016 LTSC and Windows Server 2016 SAC for Datamover and Proxynode TSM for VE 8.1.6
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

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