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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 ...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

SPP restore skip existing files

Would like the ability to do file restores with the option of do not overwrite existing. Currently, if "Overwrite existing Files/Folders" is not checked, restore fails at first existing directory. The functionality should be similar to the Spectru...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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

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

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

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

BackupSet tape Migration

We have backupsets created on 3592-JB tapes and we need to migrate these backupsets to 3592-JD tapes.We are in the process of discarding all JB tapes and TS1130 tape drive.We will have only TS1160 tape drives which can not read JB tapes.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

DBMEMPERCENT Parameter do not allow value smaller 10

Parameter DBMEMPERCENT do not allow value smaller than 10. On a AIX System with a lot of Memory are 10% as minimum for DBMEMPERCENT for small TSM Instances too many.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

SSD host identification for IBM i

SSD Host identification for IBM i is very crucial for customer who have invested in SSD in DS5000 and DS8K.
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Export performance or support data capability for a group of devices

A SI user should be able to collect support data for a group of devices that are configured under a group.
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

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