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add more function on TSM operation Center

• If is it possible we can setup server group, each user access Ops center, he/she can choose their server group to review and operation, • For sever webpage, is it possible to show both TSM instance name and OS host name, since we have several TS...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Not under consideration

Storage System Support for Port-Channel on FC Connections

Need ALL storage devices to support Port-Channeling of Storage ports with Cisco Switches
about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Ingress Rate Limiting for Storage Devices on Fibre Channel

Need ALL storage devices to support ingress rate limiting with FC connections.
about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

FLR from VM target replicated via Vsnap

In case that SLAs which replicate the backups. Then, if SPP restores a file or directory, this file or directory is always restored from the Vsnap source in case of the Vsnap replication. It should have the option to restore the file from Vsnap so...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

support OS kernel for linux 5.10.135.x86_64

support OS kernel for linux 5.10.135.x86_64
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Multi Vendor Support for Snapshots in FCM/TSM

Snapshot-based DP for Applications (with a broad Application Support, including Replication Control to a secondary Storage, for virtual and native Servers, including Application driven Single File Restores and Catalog Support) is seen more and mor...
over 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Planned for future release

REPLICATE NODE - option to mark on the remote server only the expired data

REPLICATE NODE command does not have an option to replicate (mark on the remote server) only the expired content.The expired content of a nodename is processed during the scan of the nodename, sometimes it seems that it is processed at the end of ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

Execute failed VM backups within schedule

TSM for VE has been deployed as a replacement for other vendors solutions. It is being developed well but some of the core functionality is lacking, for example the ability to re-run failed backups without having to create new adhoc schedules ever...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Identify each Restore Process choosing a name

In the jobmonitoring panel all restore process are showed with the same name " onDemandRestore". We should have the possibility to choose a name by restore process.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Single Sign On with OKTA

intergrate with OKTA or other single sign on technology
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Not under consideration