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certify with cisco NX-OS 8.4 (2a)

actually the nx-os Version of the cisco MDS 9700 8.4(2a) is not certify with spectrum control .. but this version is not the last .. and we need to have this version certify to able to have some support on it !
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

TSM for Virtual Environment Linux file level restore improvement

Almost all customers and partners complains about the complexity and the difficulty to perform Linux file level recovery with TSM for Virtual Environment. They need a simplified recovery procedure (with or without i-SCSI) to access to a volume for...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Planned for future release

File Type retention storage pool

Only Tape class is supported as Retention Pool however many customer that has NAS appliance as secondary backup storage instead of Tape like to use retention set with a copy to secondary storage.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Flashcopy snapshot on stretched cluster volume should have same preffered node as the source volume

When creating a snapshot, flashcopy volumes are assigned on a round robin method. When in a stretched cluster scenario, when you create a snapshot, you want to keep the snapshot at the same site as the source volume to prevent unwanted I/O on the ...
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

include/exclude a directory structure from archive

include.archive and exclude.archive options do not work for a directory structure. F.i. it is possible to exclude files from directory /exampleDir using definition 'exclude.archive "/exampleDir/*"' and also from all its subdirectories using defini...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 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
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Better handling of events when schedules overlap

When a node is busy with a long-running schedule, several schedules for the same node might be missed - for example when having hourly incremental backups, and a full backup is running.It would be desirable, if the TSM server could "bypass" these ...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

parallel threads of volume / vdisk migation in SVC GUI

It is not possible to change the amount of threads for vdisk / volume migrations between mdiskgroups / pools inside the SVC GUI version 6.x
almost 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Not under consideration

Unable to leverage Transparent Cloud Tiering and DFSMSHSM in a zGlobal Mirror (XRC) installation.

We are a zGlobal Mirror (XRC) shop. We want to reduce storage costs for customers by utilizing Transparent Cloud Tiering and DFSMSHSM. When using TCT and DFSMSHSM, restoration to volumes in a Copy Services relationship is not supported on the DS88...
about 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Add maximum parallel sessions for NDMP backups

Limit the number of parallel backup sessions for NDMP backups of NetApp (or any other) NAS node.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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