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    additional info collumns to job monitoring

    Please add additional colums for Total transfer size and Throughput in overview of jobs. (Monitoring)
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    CSM support scheduled task for longer period

    Scheduled task only support hourly, daily and weekly now, would like to extend the support to monthly and yearly.
    about 7 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

    Switch management

    When we deliver switches with the ESS, it's a pain that these don't come with management configured. Getting the hw technician to connect to a serial port to do initial configuration, and then connect it to a network is very cumbersome.. especiall...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

    Avoid filespace lock used by export server/node

    Tivoli Storage Server supports export node/export server functionality which is used e.g. for data migration. During the export process the filespace ,currently identifying files to export, is locked. The ability to avoid locking the filespace was...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    Improving offload hardware requirement efficiency

    Hi, Currently, when an SPP customer would like to have a copy on tapes, he has 2 alternatives:1. copy mode - to have additional storage space in the ISP server (as directory container) to allow incremental copies. that requires twice the capacity ...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Schedule Force Base Resources (full backup)

    Possibilities to Schedule full backups in a SLA. Like, over a month VM makes a full backup randomly every night spread over the time you set.
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    Add Dynamic Volume Expansion capability

    Dynamic volume expansion requires many manual steps when the volume(s) to be expanded are in a copy services relationship. CSM has all the information necessary to facilitate this process for a client. My client requests that CSM handle the end to...
    over 9 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

    Provide container pool data protection on same SP instance on disk/NAS devices

    Container pool (directory pool) data protection on the same SP instance is currently only supported to tape devices (or VTL). We would require to protect data and store it on a NFS device mounted on to the same SP instance. Moreover the SP instanc...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Backup SLA hung

    More generic job timeout option if for any reason a database/VM backup would hold the entire job
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Deligate tasks (migration) to data mover servers

    When IBM TSM is used for archiving petabytes of data for long term, massive data migration is expected specially when changing media technology. Today, the migration process can only happen on the server, and thus creates a huge load on the server...
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

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