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    Ability to use VMware backup to recover SQL database

    Customer have several hundered SQL servers of various importance. Customer want the ability to not only truncate SQL logs as part of the backup but also protect the SQL servers and use that backup to recover/re-use SQL databases.Customer want to d...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    Define VMWare backup order

    I need a way to define the vm backup order within a DOMAIN.VMFULL list
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Planned for future release

    Access of TS7700 Data in Cloud by Open Systems

    FedEx has requested the ability to access via open/distributed systems, data they will send from their on-prem TS7700s to the cloud
    over 6 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Ethernet Port Support

    Need Ethernet support added to "Ports" so we get the same visibility as Fibre Channel Ports do. Hard to run IP Replication or ISCSI and have no visibility.P.S. I would of put a PMR # but your System is not set up to handle the "new" way of things....
    over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 4 Planned for future release

    SPP File Restore GUI/Wizard

    The steps for the VM FileRestore are not clear and simple enough according to the client.In a restore situation (always associated with stress), the customer has to know or consider too many things in order to perform the file restore. For example...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Update documentation to configure multiple dsmcad services on RHEL 7.x

    Please update the documentation about "Manually configuring multiple client acceptor services on a Linux system" (https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSERB6_8.1.2/ve.inst/t_ve_cfg_setmulticadslnx.html) for RHEL 7.xBasically, the technote 2...
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

    Add extra filesystem check in linux BA client

    After you added support for BTRFS and NFSv4 the new filesystem check has problems to find and verify autofs mounted filesystems on Linux systems. Automounted filesystems will get backed up and you end up with terabytes of extra data in the backup ...
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

    Locking mechanism for TSM oldest backup

    There is no locking mechanism in TSM to prevent the oldest backup from expiring during the restore operation unless the expiration process is stopped.
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Not under consideration

    Dedupstats continuous update

    Having an option to enable background updating of dedupstats is preferred to running 'update dedupstats *' every day. 'update dedupstats' should only have to be run if information in dedupstats has become inconsistent.This could be a background pr...
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    2 TB Backup Limit in TSM for VE

    Error: ANS2236I message disks that exceed the 2 TB maximum size limit.
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

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