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    Flexibility to connect SVC for Public CLoud to any Cloud Provider

    In the SVC User Group, we had a conversation with Michelle. In working for the Federal Government, we have franchise customers who have a desire to decide their own Cloud provider, but then utilize us to provision and configure storage for them. W...
    over 7 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    TSM backup solution for KVM

    We are looking for online backup solution for KVM.
    about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

    Collect Spectrum Virtualize raw stats

    There are times where the storage insights performance data is not detailed enough or is not collecting some metrics that we need to understand performance issues.We would like to be able to enable raw stats collection where the SI data collector ...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    success ful backup in database

    So according to this case the filespace table in database, column "last_successful_backup" for Exchange TDP is only updated if replication is configured. If replication is not running, this value is not updated as it should.
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Add Spectrum Visualize internode cluster traffic to Spectrum Control and Storage Insights

    There isn't a way in SC or SI to monitor this performance.
    almost 6 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect - update LASTACC_TIME when a target node is replicated to

    Hi, In Spectrum Protect, when a node in a replicated pair is replicated to (when it is the target) the LASTACC_TIME does not update. We often use the LASTACC_TIME to determine if a node is still in use, if the LASTACC_TIME is over X days then we d...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Logfiles that would include all execution outputs

    Currently the TDPSQLC.exe has a LOGFILE option that only outputs the summary of its execution. Today, if I wish to see the summary and the execution of each database backup I need to provide both the LOGFILE and a redirected log path such that I c...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 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...
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Restore VM for Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines to be enhance to add parameter destinationfilespec

    We need to restore Hyper-V virtual machines backup to different server at different location. Since this functionality is not available in restore vm command we are not able to restore VM to different lcoation. As per IBM L2 support TSM doesn't su...
    about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Planned for future release

    Improve support for remote CES Protocol Clusters sharing only NFS exports, to support access to the same remote filesystem concurrently

    The customer currently has more than. 32000 nfs exports across 5000 paths, which takes a significant amount of time to perform an export definition refresh (any time a new export is added) this generally in excess of 5 minutes for the export defin...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

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