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Storage Protect Family

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Resourcepool support for TSM VE

Support in TSM VE for creating schedules based on VMware resource pool. Now this is only possible on host, folder, cluster and datastore.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

List all volumes needed for restore

Maybe IBM can develop a tool for list all volumes needed to make a restore before it executes.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Copy Data Manager needs to support Metro Mirror or Metro Mirror with Consistency volumes

CDM needs to support Metro Mirror in addition to global mirror change volumes. This would decrease the need for additional space on the primary storage.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

exclude.vmdisk into client option set (cloptset)

Currently, the exclude.vmdisk cannot be set centrally on the TSM server by using the cloptset.So if you have multiple data movers, you have to set it locally on each data movers.Currently, we are managing between 500 - 600 VMs, spawn on 4 virtual ...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Advanced Analytics and cataloging for Spectrum Protect

At present, Spectrum Protect does not seem to provide an advanced method of querying its database to find things such as duplicated files around the environment, file ownership, usage by owner, etc. This capability can make it difficult to find ob...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

Lack of integration with IBM Spectrum Protect

Lack of an integration between IBM Spectrum Protect (SP) and IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management (CDM) using Pure Storage. Lack of this functionality is a major road block to deploy/adoption a supported combination of Pure, CDM and SP solution.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

Add support for EMC NVB using NDMP

Add support for EMC NVB to speed up NDMP Backups of EMC filer file systems
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Tool to reset damaged files without "audit volume"

Sometimes there is some error condition while the TSM server is reading a tape (tape failure, drive failure, network failure, other). In many of these cases, the TSM server marks the files it could not read as "damaged". The standard way of making...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Add Wait parameter to AUDIT VOLUME command

Add parameter WAIT to the AUDIT VOLUME command. If set to YES, the AUDIT VOLUME would wait until the process is finished before continuing with the next command or next line in the script.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM - events tabel sql queries prb

Info from support:I've discussed the issue with our developers, and the symptom you see is caused by staging tables we are using to fulfill the SQL requests. I tried to confirm a perfoamnce APAR with them and I could open one if you insist, howeve...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration