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TDP-R3 should not consider the SAP Oracle DB backup which is failed for control files for retention count.

We are taking SAP Oracle DB backup using TDP-R3 along with BRbackup utility and RMAN. Backup attempted to create an auto backup of SPFILE and control file which got failed, but the backup continued running and TDP instructed to store backup pieces...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Future consideration

IBM SVC- request ability in V7.x GUI to create multi-volume (plus symbol) capability like in pre-V7.x GUI.

Pre-V7.x GUI, when creating New Volume there existed an ability to enter a (Volume Name, Size, # of Volumes) and ability to click on (plus symbol) to add new line for entering additional New Volumes. Appears that starting in V7.1.0.x GUI, that whe...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

TSM for VE - VMware - VM Tag support

We would like to request the VM schedule tagging functionality to VE. Not being able to do it at the VM level is creating a lot of unnecessary workarounds and exceptions. Is this something that is in scope for future releases? Thanks.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Compression for Virtualize is Selective

Virtualize/Storwize Compression is selective by nature; meaning that it will allow you to compress data which will cause performance impact despite being able to identify non-compressible data. This leads to many performance related impacts.
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Allow specification of CN in LDAP authentication for TS4300 login

Currently when configuring LDAP authentication on TS4300 the user CN is fixed cn=xxxxx.Modern authentication servers use different common names than "CN" - like "UID", ... Please add ability to specify which User CN is being used for LDAP connecti...
over 4 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Future consideration

SP for VMware multiple proxies in web client

In some SP for VMware environments using just one proxy node may not be optimal or even possible.The SP for VMware Vsphere Web client integration must be able to handle multiple proxy node configs.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Enable SNMP access

The V7000 support only SNMP Traps. It would be nice to monitor with SNMP MIB, so that a healthy state could also be determined.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

128 mdisk per pool

The SVC has a limit from 128 mdisk per mdiskpool.This limit is clearly too small for performant enfironment. We need at least 512 mdisk or 1024 mdisks per pool. So the memory for caching can be better utilized. A breakdown of the memory does not m...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Admin API

Please document and open the admin api to the server. There seems to be an API which is used eg. by Tivoli Integrated Portal as I can see XML in tcpdumps. Maybe you still use something like SOAP. So providing an WSDL and/or Interfaces to .NET and ...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

INCLUDE.VMDISK improvement

Our policy should be to make an image of only the OS-disk of VM VMWare, with TSM for VE . Making VMbackups of the data-disks with TSM for VE should not be allowed.For 91% of the VM's (+/-4200 VM's) , the OS disk with SCSI(0:0) is located on “hard ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

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