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    Mailbox Item Level restore

    There is functionality with ISP for Mail (Exchange) that let administrators to restore mailbox item from mailbox database backup, using Mailbox Restore Browser - functionality in ISP for Mail GUI, but it works up to MS Exchange 2013. With Exchange...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Not under consideration

    Improve effectiveness of node replication process

    The effectiveness of the node replication process needs to be improved, when data is located on FILEDEV device class based storage - in order to be better able to utilize the maximum defined number of sessions when possible.
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Server Cross-replication with Client Acceptors to both on all clients

    Site fail-over/fail-back of the "restore" function (read from ISP server(s)) is already provided in the ISP server product. Site fail-over/fail-back of the "backup" function (write to ISP server) is not. If site A goes down, backups must be suspen...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Subnet specification for RDMA based clusters

    When connecting two Scale Clusters via RDMA, the "subnets" parameter is limiting. We at Vcinity specialize in building equipment that is used for connecting systems over the wan using the RDMA protocol. Whether it is InfiniBand or ROCE, we provide...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    change of MgmtClass in VTS 7760 should automatically activate CopyExport without z/OS mount required

    We were implementing CopyExport with VTS7760 and deceided to take over all tape datasets in our VTS (~68000) to CopyExport Volumes (all Tape data ever produced). For that the ManagementClass of each tape must be changed to a MC which is using Copy...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    ESS Support VDC 270 Power input

    For higher energy conversion efficiency, the datacentor is constructed with dual DC power inputs. Doing so is more environmentally friendly and reduces carbon emissions. Our datacentor construction is all dual-channel high-voltage DC, and will con...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Future consideration

    Integrate 'Relabel Scratch' command with Fujitsu Eternus vJuke virtual libraries

    Fujitsu Eternus VTLs are well known in several customer's ISP environments. Main difference to other VTLs is the ability to stack logical volumes on physical tapes in the backend.Data written to the VTL is stored in a tape volume cache (TVC) on vi...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    SP Client - Suppress interactive prompts

    Hello, we do a lot of scripted restores and backups. We found that in a replicated environment under certain conditions a restore operation would for example prompt with "ANS2120W The last store operation date reported by the server .... does not ...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

    Global Mirror volume write throughput

    Need an ability to see the Global Mirror Volumes listed on "Copy Data Screen" under General Tab. Also, need a total value of Global Mirror auxiliary volume write throughput as mentioned in the following webpage: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectru...
    almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

    Support for Extended ACL Propagation on Spectrum Protect BA Client Restore to Isilon NAS via Windows Proxy.

    The customer opened a tickets to report that when he would restore files locally on a Windows host / proxy, it would restore the extended ACL proxy using the BA Client but when he does the same, using the same Windows Proxy but to restore the data...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

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