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Add tunable to enable increase disk IO block size from 256kB

The TSM server on Linux is currently using Direct IO with a 256kB block size when doing IO to/from DISK/FILE volumes. The decision to use 256kB was made a long time ago, and the current state of technology is that this block size is simply to smal...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Customisation of reports - possibility to add a customer logo

We would like to have the possibility to add a customer logo to the report mails and to change the format of the output from the SQL queries.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Backup of Shared VHDX and Shared VHDX in a set

would like the ability of backing up Hyper-V VM's using SPP when they are configured with Shared VHDX and/or Shared VHDX in a Set.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP - Sort lists / Provide user ability to sort

Lists in the user interface are not sorted: vSnap servers, VADP servers, SLAs when assigning an SLA to a VM, etc. All lists should be sorted by default and should also provide the user the ability to click any column to sort by that column.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Allow snapdiff backups of NetApp CIFS volumes containing widelinks

TSM uses NetUseEnum() to determine if a NetApp CIFS share is connected before attempting a snapdiff backup. When run on a NetApp CIFS volume with widelinks, it results in the following error: ANS2831E: Incremental by snapshot difference cannot be ...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Make usage time series information available via the Spectrum Scale API

The Spectrum Scale Management GUI has time series information available for GPFS file systems and filesets. This information includes (but is not limited to) the change in block usage (i.e. how much space used) and change in inode usage. However t...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

To fix the backup issue happening due to the mounted snapshot for FLR

As of now the backups are failing for the VMs for which the backup snapshots are in mounted state for FLR. There are some critical restore request which takes plenty of time to copy the files (due to size) and we are forced to keep the VM mounted....
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Copy Data Management to support FS and Application for the same client

An Application Server Provider is defined as an application (HANA, System Cache, SQL, Oracle) or File System. Why not both Oracle and File System? for example
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Be able to configure the proxy server with IP ADDRESS and not only with FQDN

Some customers use the proxy server with IP instead of FQDN due to internal rules
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Proxy server support for connecting to AWS S3 (cloud container storage pool)

Support for proxy connections when defining cloud storage pools in Spectrum protect server
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

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