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    Improve SPP Scheduler

    Scheduler is not enough flexible. Need an enhanced-like tsm schdeduler. Case :a VM can be backuped by differents Sla's, with theirs own retention and start time. we need :- to add some exclusions (exclude a soecific hour, day, week, month , exclud...
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Exclude File System Type

    Would like to exclude per the file system type.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

    Support for AWS Outposts with FlashSystem Storage.

    Currently NetApp and Pure Storage seem to be the only vendors which do support this on-premises delivery model for Amazon. If we had support for this as part of the FlashSystem/Storage Virtualize portfolio, our Business Partners would have an IBM ...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    tape overwrite function for copy-container storage pools

    Please implement a way to overwrite a tape in a container-copy storage pool. In sequential pools you could just use the "move data" command for this and move the data from one tape to another without losing temporary copy coverage or messing with ...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Fusion restore target can use GIU/UID difference than source

    Fusion restore service will be able to restore a project namespace using a new set of GID/UID that may be different than the GID/UID used in the source. This can be useful in the event that the original GID/UID are already in use in the target clu...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 2 Future consideration

    Migrating IBM Spectrum Protect Servers from One Operating System to Another

    Currently there is support of migrating an IBM Spectrum Protect server from AIX to Linux x86_64 via extractdb/insertdb but not the other way around.
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Protect Migration process hang waiting volumes in use

    Storagepools with file type devclass are used on a large scale in this client. the problem occurs when the migration process starts and some session has a mounted .bfs file (backup or restore). The migration process remains stuck until the session...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Protect (TSM) "What's New" Operations Center Feed

    Spectrum Protect customers often are unaware when new versions of the solution are released and what relevant new features are added. This often causes issues as the applications and software they are protecting continues to update and requires sp...
    about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    Prevent Web B/A client file level restore port conflict with WAS ports

    Customer identified during the Spectrum Protect web client implementation that its ports (9081) conflicts directly with WAS (Websphere Application Server) ports that's is being in use by their banking online production applications. Thus this beha...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

    TDP for MS SQL FCM GUI Customization

    The way information is displayed in the FCM GUI interface, restore tab, is cumbersome to use, especially when dealing with multiple instances. We should be able to customize the column layout, and sort on multiple columns.
    about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

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