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    Add Support for Windows Directory Junction Links / symbolic links

    We "extend" disks by creating Symbolic Links using Microsoft Windows mklink.exe command. i.e.mklink /j f:\DataF\Departments\CofE-PD\PRJ\Projects\2020 k:\Data\Departments\CofE-PD\PRJ\Projects\2020 This will Create a directory junction f:\DataF\Depa...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

    Connect to an AWS S3 bucket with an IAM Role

    Our customer wants Spectrum Protect to be able to connect to an AWS S3 Bucket using an IAM Role without the need of the access key and the secret key. Today other products are able to do it.
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Spectrum Control - Add a capacity planning modeling function

    IBM Spectrum Control uses capacity information to provide an estimated zero capacity date. I would request that this same information be utilized to allow customers to perform capacity planning modeling. Current workaround: Perform this manually u...
    over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 2 Not under consideration

    Load Balance of TSM for VE Datamovers

    When you have 1000's of Virtual Machines and a daily changes in your environment, it get's really hard to get a good a easy overview which Datamover that has less load. It should be good if the datamovers could talk to each other and spread the wo...
    almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

    Hide snapshot directory

    Hide the snapshot directory by removing its entry from the readdir(3) system call and/or getdents(2) system call. Currently snapshot directories are not actually hidden, they are fully visible but just have a name beginning with a dot. That is jus...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    TSM for Virtual Environments should support nested VMFolder structure

    When doing the VMware Backup using TSM for Virtual Environments with the "VMFOLDER" option we backup only machines residing directly in that VMFOLDER. Many cutomers are using a nested folder concept (Folders inside a Folder). TSM for VE does not r...
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Not under consideration

    TSM for VE: Virtualized Application Support

    Currently the vStorage API for Data Protection creates VMware snapshots before TSM moves the data to TSM Pools. These VMware snapshots are able to create a filesystem data consistency or an application consistency if the application is VSS aware. ...
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Not under consideration

    support of AzureStack in Spectrum Protect Plus

    we want to move our backups to cloud as 'second backup'. Our cloud provider offers AzureStack /pleAzureStack/, but in menu of Spectrum Protect plus is only Azure. Could you add support of AzureStack in some of near updates?
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Not under consideration

    Inherited VM options on a per backup policy level

    Backup policies defined on a per tag basis are allowed to inherit the parent options associated with the tag (i.e. defining proxy server, snapshot retries, application/filesystem consistency, etc.). As these options get defined for a single tag, t...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Add the source/target DS8K serial or WWN in the DSCLI lspprc command output

    When issuing the lspprc command, the output shows you the type of pprc and the source/target lss, but not to which DS8K you are copying to/from. In a multitarget environnement with a lss being the source of multiple pprc, knowing the targeted DS8K...
    over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

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