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TDP for Oracle Parallel Backup to Multiple TSM Servers

Backup/restore performance in TSM TDP environments can be increased through the addition of TSM servers that rman uses for backups and restores. A solution that does not require manual scripting would make this functionality easier to use and offl...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

Implement recommission* node in OC

Missing the possibility to recommission a node or vm with the OC. Only the command decommission is available.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 3 Future 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.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Skip or Exclude Virtual Machine SRM Placeholders

During a backup of VM's, TSM for VE does not recognize SRM Placeholders as unique and attempts to back them up like a regular VM, but since they are not true VM's, the backups fail. Need a way to have TSM for VE recognize SRM placeholders and skip...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Migrate Inactive Data from StoragePools

Need the ability to migrate inactive data from storage pools. When large disk pools are used (typically with dedup) and these pools fill, there is no way to automatically migrate data in a selective manner. Using Age based migration rules results ...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 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...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

SCDM On IBM Spectrum Virtualize can not do FC/GM Workflow

when crating an SLA selecting Spectrum Virtualize, can not doa FC then GM workflow, this is fully supported by the storage
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SCDM 3-site replication target support

on FS storage when a 3-site replication is setup, SCDM can not do any action on the 3-site replication target volume
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future 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...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

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
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Not under consideration