IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Timestamp of the creation of a copy of an archive or backup object

    RPO is one of the key characteristics of a TSM server-based B&R solution. In order a guarantee a specific RPO, it is important to be able to report on the state of the backed up or archived objects in a TSM Server repository. Specifically, it ...
    about 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Support for Oracle DB on Windows

    The feature we are requisting is full support for Oracle 10 and higher on Windows Server OS'es. We are right now using Oracle 10g on windows 2003 64bit and 11g on 2008 R2.The feature should contain scheduling, management of Flashcopy versions and ...
    about 14 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

    Schedule options filed enhancement to store more virtual machine names

    When using the new frontend for TSM for VE for creating a scheduled backup the frontend uses the options filed to store necessary parameters like: Options: -vmfulltype=vstor -vmbackuptype=fullvm -asnodename=DC_BERLIN -domain.vmfull="VM=vm_name1,vm...
    about 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

    Exchange 2010 with DAG backup active/passive DBs

    TSM for Mail is currently making a difference if a mailbox database is active or passive (Exchange 2010 using DAG). So for each kind of backup there will be kept the defined number of versions. (e.g. 7 Versions should be kept, so if the database i...
    about 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Not under consideration

    Track tape errors for scratch volumes

    Currently, read and write errors are tracked for volumes only while they are defined in storage pools. Returning volumes to scratch causes this information for those volumes to be lost. It would be extremely useful to be able to track this data fo...
    about 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    TSM Enhancement Request for virtual mount for Windows

    Army ITA has a large Pentagon Telecomunications Center customer who has 34 bit Windows 2003 and moving to 64 bit Windows 2008. They are requesting virtual mount for Windows similar to what is currently availalbe for Unix. The current requirement f...
    about 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

    Allow automatic checkin of returned DRM volumes

    It would be useful to be able to checkin tapes that have come back from offsite as scratch automatically, instead of having to do a MOVE DRM on them first (or after checking in as private).
    about 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Automation of TSM configuration

    Automatically discover devices and (re-)configure TSM server/client options It's reported that our competitive products may have had such capability. Account team contacts: Ken Kelly/Waltham/IBM, Daniel R Digregorio/Waltham/IBM@IBMUS, Gary Graham/...
    about 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Working Version for tsm 6.3 on solaris 10 x86

    hello, this is not really a new feature. on ibm webpages, solaris 10 x86 is "not supported" for the server and client. so it wood be good to have versions for solaris10 x86
    about 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Email alerting

    Alert when job fails as a supplement to reports.
    about 14 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

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