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    Fast End-User Feeling Restore

    Today are we trying to get better RTO/RPO with as less money as possible. We are also looking at to backup/restore from a cloud environment. This is always a hazel when RPO vs money. And most of the time does all the end-users only want a couple o...
    about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

    Faster Single File Restore (TSM for VE) from Tape (Block Level Backup IFE)

    With large capacity VM's (several TB's) that also have a requirement for long retention policies, tape is still the most cost effective storage medium.In a commercially driven environment, it is very difficult to convince customers that we require...
    about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

    CDM compatibility with RHEL8 for SAP HANA -

    One of the largest customer in ANZ for SAP HANA on Power is running HANA 2.0 over RHEL 8 and want to use Spectrum Copy Data Management (CDM) v 2.2.12 As per the current compatibility information
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

    Add ability to alert on age of DS8000 FlashCopy

    Storage Insights does not currently have any built in alerts related to FlashCopy, or ability to create custom alerts. It would be helpful for us to create alerts based on the presence of a FlashCopy set, the age of the set, etc.
    about 6 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Scale ECE - optimize the efficiency of swapd processing, and ensure consistency in file access

    Current Issue: A directory A is created on GPFS Client 1. Then on Client 2, directory A is accessed and a subdirectory B is created inside it. If directory A is subsequently deleted and recreated on GPFS Client 1, attempting to create subdirectory...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    allow audit of copy-container pools

    Some customers demand proof-read of tape based storage pools on a regular basis. We have used AUDIT VOLUME for this purpose even though its primary purpose is to check consistency of data but by doing that, it also reads all data from the tapes. B...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Add error handling to dsmc to avoid looping asking questions to non-existent terminal

    dsmc does not handle End Of File (EOF) on stdin gracefully when the situation arises that it needs to prompt and ask a question. Instead of realizing that there is no terminal attached and abort gracefully it gets stuck in a loop forever saying: T...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Planned for future release

    Improve tape restores

    We notice that when an VM Incremental Forever backup is to be restored (or mounted) a lot repeated tape mounts are performed and it takes a long time. For instance, if in one of the tapes there is several chunks of data from different backup dates...
    about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

    Offload to multiple Spectrum Protect Repositories

    Current problem is, only one Spectrum Protect Repository can be adressed using accesskey and secret key. But we need to offload to multiple servers, due to contingency reasons. We think restriction does not make any sense, and we were glad if this...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    Display filespace occupancy per Storage Pool in API

    Display the "FSLOGICALMB" for all used storage pools of the filespace at the API "oc/api/servers/{server}/clients/{client}/filespaces".to bee non disruptive to the existing data format do this by adding a dictionary containing the storage pool and...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

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