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Support use of Raw Device Mappings (RDMs) in virtual mode in conjunction with the IBM FlashSystem SRA in VMware SRM

MSP wants to provide possiblity of this setup to one of their tenants.
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

mmauth grant should also work for already mounted clusters

mmauth grant ... -a ro requires a remount on the remote side (which is not documented, BTW). This is a problem as the remote cluster may not be controlled by you.
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Differential retention of replicated backup data coming from databases like DB2

Submitting on behalf of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee. Customer would like Spectrum Protect and DB2 to cooperate on retention of backup data from databases such that it could be retained at a primary site for a longer amount of time than it ...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Server migration processing should be able to use more than 1 process with data from only 1 node in the primary disk pool

Server migration processing (from disk to tapes) should be able to use more than 1 process in order to use multiple tape drives in parallel emptying the disk pool despite data in the primary disk pool is from 1 node only.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

optional Heartbeat to ecurep / callhome cloud

Similar to other Products (Scale / DS800 / Storvize) We could create a Heartbeat and send periodical GDPR complient data to Ecurep. The Data could contain current versions, some usage stats, open events etc. This would give us more feedback about ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Need Plus to "recognize" cloned Oracle Database, keep it on the SLA to continue backups, possibly with tagging, or backup of all databases from a host with the option to exclude.

Regular cloning for Oracle Databases for patching process, which also moves the binaries, but maintains the inventory. Patched clone is then set as the production database. Need Plus to recognize the new Oracle as the production, keep it with the ...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Include proxy node (PROXY_AGENT) info in actlog

When using proxy nodes to put data into a single proxy target, it would be nice if operations by proxy nodes (PROXY_AGENT) are logged together with the proxy node name i a seperate column in the TSM server activity log.If backups are done directly...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Not under consideration

Backups of Hard links

Backup of Hard linked files will backup the data blocks once for every hard link.This behavior, where TSM treats all links as regular files, is not optimal since a backup will need to transfer the data more than needed.This should be optional so t...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Add zstd as a compression option

It's great to have lz4 and Z as compression options but it would be nice to additional some additional compression options such as zstd.
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Add error handling to dsmc to avoid looping asking questions to non-existent terminal

dsmc does not handle End Of File (EOF) on stdin gracefully when the situation arises that it needs to prompt and ask a question. Instead of realizing that there is no terminal attached and abort gracefully it gets stuck in a loop forever saying: T...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Planned for future release

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