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Restore are very slow

Querying of Exchange backups is very slow in a large environments. E.g. in environment with 100+ Exchange mailbox databases and 200 backups per each it take nearly 3 hours. This causes that restores are terribly slow.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Not under consideration

V7000 / V3700 / SVC GUI Based Flashcopy Scheduler

Our customers are requesting an enhancement to the V7000 to include a basic scheduler of flashcopies per LUN. EMC and Netapp both offer this compelling feature. Smaller shops do not want to purchase or deal with the complexity of Tivoli Flashcopy ...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Not under consideration

mmchconfig and mmvdisk configure need to be more transparent

Today, there is no association between mmvdisk configure and mmchconfig. The RFE is to have one command for setting both GPFS parameters and mmvdisk and for mmvdisk to have a way to preserve any previously customized parameters.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Provide options within SP to use SCSI commands to work with the tape operations, like mount a tape, unmount a tape, move tape from one slot to another etc

This is required for day to day operations, and this option is pretty much available with all other backup product vendors Refer - https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100022873 IBM case Ref - Case: TS016303198 (ibm.com)
8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Functionality already exists

NDMP - NAS backups - Encrypted communications with TLS 1.2/3

Required to secure communications in line with all other client server operations
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

Add command ts4500cli.jar like 'saveMountHistory'

We need to keep track of tapes and their usage. Connecting to the tapelibrary every hour to download mount history is not a practical solution. This can be automated if the cli has a command like saveMountHistory where the last XXX mounts (or mayb...
over 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Functionality already exists

Option "Skipmissingsyswfiles" to be allowed in the Client Options Set

The "Skipmissingsyswfiles" option is needed to stop SP/TSM from skipping system state files that will be needed for a "Bare Metal Restore" (BMR). Currently this option can only be set in the DSM.OPT file. We want to be able to set this option in t...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Scale maintenance integration with RHEL "yum"

when patching is performed on RHEL (with yum update), binaries that match the kernel must be available concurrently from an IBM public REPO site.1) Patching of RHEL cannot cause a mismatch of the binaries between RHEL and Scale, 2) compilers canno...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

REST style API for administrative purposes

An API towards the TSM server is desirable, in order to be able to automate functions other applications/services - instead of having to build wrappers for the administrative command-line.
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Support to backup S3-based on-premise Object storage (private cloud) to Tapes using ISP or ISPP

Object storage is trending these days and we want to be able to secure it using IBM Spectrum Protect or IBM SPP on tapes. Currently no option to do so on standard S3 protocol. Other vendors are supporting backing up S3-based object storage into ta...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 5 Planned for future release

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