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More filter options for the QUERY ACTLOG command

The ACTLOG table/view contains around 14 fields and the majority of these have corresponding options which can be used to filter the output of QUERY ACTLOG. For example MSGNO=, NODENAME=, SESSNUM=. However the list of fields that can be used as fi...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

TSM Client suport for Solaris on X86

TSM client support for TSM 6.3 on Solaris x86
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

DRP Pool -> Migrate vDisk between DRPs

Introduction of the migratevdisk command for DRP pools.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

DRP Pool -> show internal volumes in vdisk list or on a seperate list

Producing transparency, not just accounting for the consumption of internal volumes in the pool, but displaying those volumes in the volume list of consumptions.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

API to return changed blocks since last backup

While Spectrum Scale synergy with Spectrum Protect (TSM) is great and completely adapted to the backup of a file system that is hosting a very large number of files (basically used as a file server) that are added every day and some of them being ...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Smartcard Authentication for VE web GUI

Our organization enforces the use of smartcards or tokens to authenticate to servers, workstations, and applications. We are requesting that IBM add a smartcard option to the Spectrum Protect for VE "Web GUI".
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

CLI to set Restful API requests limits

As for now request limits for restful API are hard-coded in SVC. See table in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/sanvolumecontroller/8.5.x?topic=svc-spectrum-virtualize-restful-api. For some use cases it makes sense to set the limits higher to enable aut...
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Future consideration

HP StoreOnce Catalyst Integration for TSM

HP StoreOnce Catalyst enables deduplication to be deployed in flexible, cost effective ways that were not previously possible. It provides enhanced multi-site and cascaded replication options to balance performance, cost, and resiliency. Exploitin...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

improvement for 'Generate backupset' to support SQL and Exchange filespaces

Backupsets are a great way to handle data to be stored for long term retention. Lots of TSM customers use backupsets for that purpose. Alas it's not possible to generate a backupset for filespaces containing data from TDP backups such as SQL and E...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

Expand mmrsync to accept filelist

mmrsync accepts the filenames only as parameters. Extend it to also accept a filename containing a list of files to sync.
about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

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