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over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Integration of change volumes into the stretched cluster concept

When using vdisk mirror between two data centers in a stretched cluster configuration SVC also needs to ensure that the change volumes are mirrored in the same way as the primary volumes to avoid loss of the GM mirror.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Collocation for Cloud-Container Storage pool

System: IBM Spectrum Protect v7.1.7 or v8.1 (TSM) Requirement: Customer want to collocate data for Cloud Container STGPOOLWe archive medical data of hundreds of Hospitals (with hundreds of servers) to tape using collocation by node. Collocation op...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Copy Data Managment: SAP HANA (system) connectivity should support SSH keys

As of today SCDM needs "user/password" credentials for its SAP HANA (system) connectivity. As this a security risk (and not allowed at our company anymore) the product should support SSH keys as system credentials. Since SCDM already has this for ...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Support for spanning logical volumes on TS7770 with zTape Air-Gap Tape Exporter (FC5995)

A customer owns a solution for some of his backup jobs based on old native tape drives C07 / TS1140 whose End of Service already passed.  We’d like to replace it with a TS7770 with zTape Air-Gap Tape Exporter (FC5995) – which is a TS7770...
almost 2 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1

Ignore/Skip Windows RC Codes during Backup

As you can see in the PMR we got a big problem with some files on a netapp filer. This files were created by randomly by netapp filer. Problem is that these files have no owner, or other NTFS securitys so an windows RC appears if the BA Client try...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Is a defect

Generate Archive set

The amount of data are always growing but the transfer rate between client and server is still very slow and IBM and many other backup software are trying to solve the data transfer by using Duplication. Normally are a client only doing a Archive ...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Provision of vdisk protection time for unmap and delete

Currently there is a parameter "vdisk_protection_time" is available to configure on SVC to avoid any unforeseen deletions by an error. We need to have a different parameter for unmap of volume and a similar parameter for protecting against deletio...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

disable event actlog ANR2034

I think it would be very nice if it was possible to disable the "ANR2034" from the actlog: disable event actlog ANR2034 I have a lot of them, and they dont give me ANY valuable information at all.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

multiple backup cycles support in TSM for VE.

Multiple backup cycles support for each VMDKs is needed.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration