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Ability to execute Backup Schedules on-demand

The ability to execute a schedule task in the Backup Schedules list manually. The current behavior is scheduled backup will only run at a scheduled time, we cannot right click and choose run now (similar to an adhoc backup).
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Request for a Server option to prevent the server to pass the communication options for a replication target to a client

Starting with version 7.1 a client can failover to a replication target for restoring data. If the client is enabled and configured for replication on the server, the client receives the communication options for the target and adds the informatio...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Need to improve file restore option to assign limited restore permission

Need to improve file restore option to assign limited restore permission because in the current version we have to implement multiple settings.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

GPFS Windows support for zimon interfaces

Please provide capability for performance monitoring of GPFS Windows filesystems. Currently, GPFS Windows doesn't support zimon interfaces
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

OC Send reports monthly

Today OC can create and send reports daily or weekly, we would like to create and send report monthly also. We have seen the need at several customers to send monthly reports.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Not under consideration

Deleted VM expiration by TSM for VE

The classical implementation of TSM for VE relies on one or multiple Datamover node processing the backups (let's say at least one). A Datamover node is usually not the "master" node, i.e. the datamover node is a proxy node of the main "container"...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Add ability to restore drives over original location

Customer would like to have the option to restore a drive directly over the original drive. Currently the only option is to restore the drive and have it mounted along side the original drive.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Exclude VMs from Sources Protected number.

If I tag a VM with something like ‘no_backup' or just don't include it in an SLA it is still counted in the total number of VMs protected. There are some VMs (desktops, Citrix, Web, etc) where you may have a single configuration server and then ma...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Graceful failure of AFM recall timeouts when using AFM-NSD + Support for offline file awareness with AFM (related issues)

Any client using AFM-NSD Caching with a home storage repository that uses DMAPI aware Hierarchical Storage Management is at risk. AFM-NSD has no ability to gracefully respond when an AFM Cache requst to a recall filesfrom home times out. AFM-NFS u...
10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

REST API should support managing fileset access control for remote mounts

Customer wants to change which filesets their compute cluster has access to, based on which group of users are using it. This is to protect groups of users to see each others files, even for root. They will implement filesystem encryption to prote...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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