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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 ...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

CDM integration with Power VMR-DR

Today CDM does not support integration with VIOS on AIX as it does with ESXi. VMR-DR integration on the power side of the house would allow for a complete package to be presented for customers on AIX looking to do Disaster Recovery.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Shorten AFM/DR RPO Interval

The current design is that minimal RPO interval is 60 minutes. That is too long and will loss of huge data. Customer expect to set it to 1-5 minutes. 1-5 minutes RPO interval is acceptable in most of scenarios and it can help us to catch up compet...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

multiple backup cycles support in TSM for VE.

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

Add a status message to dsmwebcl.log on startup indicating POLLING or PROMPTED mode

Please add a status message to dsmwebcl.log on startup indicating whether POLLING or PROMPTED mode is being used, as well as the polling period (if polling).
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect support for gluster filesystems

Spectrum Protect client should support the gluster filesystem.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Reclaim process improvement

Every week, our team needs to export tape to an offline vault.Our use case involves having a large # of tapes that are not fully utilized.Thus, we like to consolidate these tapes into a few tape (as few as possible) before exporting them to offlin...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Not under consideration

scheduled command messages are wrapped in activity log - ANR2753I

When ANR messages are logged as a result of commands run inside of an administrative schedule, the messages are wrapped at approx 40 characters. see ANR2753I. This makes programmatic processing of the logs very difficult. Log messages should never...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

TSM on GPFS quota support

del fi on repl target using dedup and GPFS . Problembeschreibung when running some del fi on a repl target using dedub and having DB, LOG and STGP on GPFS caused by the Dedup Deletion Worker the archlog was used to the given maximum by quota, i gu...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Ability to create a cascade of clones that are independent from each other

If a database was cloned with FlashCopy Manager and this clone (D1) serves as source for another clone (D2) it is currently not possible to refresh D1 without deleting D2. For some scenarios this restriction has technical reasons. But by using ful...
about 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Planned for future release

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