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Ability to cancel the offload tape backup with FCM

When a backup process is offloaded to a backup server, it may take several hours. For example with a customer, each offload process takes 8 to 12 hours. At time, we need to cancel it when we try to backup development applications to make sure that...
about 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

SVC / Storwize Family Code DDM auto add

Top Global Air line would like to see less interaction required when replaced a failed DDM. In essence, take out some of the DMP and manual steps of adding in replacement drives to make the V7000 subsystem more of Tier 1 offering.
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

TDP Exchange 6.4 restore single mail with 2 account domain

Possible to restore the mailboxe from a domain (LU) on TDP 6.4.1 Exchange 2010 from a domain (APLLI).Should we have 2 accounts from the 2 domains LU and APPLI for the restoration of the Mailboxe ?
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Not under consideration

Need to be able to configure Raid with 3+P within the GUI interface for all storage on the V7000. (SYS4957)

Need to be able to configure Raid with 3+P within the GUI interface for all storage on the V7000.
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

V7000 to have options to better handle battery recondition issues

The customer requirement is to ask adding options to bypass battery failure, do not shut down V7000Description: When aggregated battery power less than 37%, V7000 will gracefully shut down to avoid accidentally cache data lost. But this will lead ...
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Fastback enhanced scheduling

Update Fastback scheduling to allow enhanced scheduling in line with other TSM products.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack 2 Not under consideration

Fastback Windows cluster support

Retain changed block mapping after the failover of volumes from one cluster node to the next so that Delta block incrementals are not required. Windows servers are patched and rebooted EVERY month. With a cluster Windows provides a way to eliminat...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack 4 Not under consideration

Fastback suite Enhancements

Continue development of Fastback into a 64-bit architecture.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack 3 Not under consideration

Isbank need for Triton on SVC

Isbank, which is one of the biggest SVC customers in Turkey (approximately 6PB) favors the "EasyTier Server" technology (IBM name Triton) which is valid only for DS8870 with AiX on System-p.
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

SAP HANA cloning with TSM ERP

For SAP on DB2 and Oracle TSM ERP provides support to create a copy of a database instance (with a different SID) on a another system. This functionality is missing for SAP HANA.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 2 Not under consideration

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