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Spectrum Protect - Add functionality to the deactivate data command

Expand the deactivate data command to apply to other clients besides Oracle. It is urgently needed for SQL backup clients. The deactivate data command should be expanded to work on SQL, DB2, Informix, and all other API-style backup products.
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Allow to expand the size of volumes in a Flashcopy mapping

Currently it is not allowed to expand the size of a volume which is part of a flashcopy mapping. This restriction should be removed.
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

Password Expiration Warning

Having a warning that the password used to log into the storage would alert users in advance and could proactively manage their passwords.
about 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Not under consideration

Test function for callhome setting

We have callhome function, but there is no test button that customer can test communication between their system and callhome server.
about 2 years ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

BA Client for ARM/ARM64

ARM architecture user base is growing, and ARM servers needs protection too.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Not under consideration

TSM for VE - File-level restore process similar to TSM BA GUI

In a virtual environment, be able to execute file-level restore to alternate location using a backup operator account and keeping the original Windows folders/files permissions. This process would be similar to TSM BA client restore process, that ...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Inclusion of a REST API to interface with the TS7700 MI

Add a REST API to the TS7700 MI to gather operational and performance statistics.
about 6 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

distributed "lsof" or "fuser"?

Currently, there is no way of getting information on open files/directories per device/fileset/subdirectory on any node. The option to run "mmdsh -N all lsof /my/path/to/fileset" isn't really feasible on large clusters. As a distributed file syste...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Isolate proxies to only backup clients in its respective esxi cluster

Need the ability to isolate proxies to only backup clients in its respective esxi cluster.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

More flexible VMTAG processing

Version 7.1.6 gave us the possibility to use VMware TAGs to help control the exclusion of a VM and the Spectrum Protect (TSM) management class a VM should use. Even if this is a great improvement, I think that it could easily be extended to give u...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

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