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    disable encryption during replication

    We provide datacenter service, enterprise backup and disaster recovery services to our customers. That's why we need to backup our customers' data under the SLA we have committed.As we tested we are not satisfied about Spectrum Protect Plus's repl...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

    Restoring deleted data on Object Storage

    We provide datacenter and data protection service over Spectrum Protect Plus to our customers.We also provide cloud service over Zadara, added Zadara as S3 compatible on Spectrum Protect Plus. Zadara has a feature that enables us to restore a dele...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Future consideration

    Allow replication processing of data on sequential tape media to use more than one mountpoint/session per node/filespace

    Allow replication processing of data on sequential tape media to use more than one mountpoint/session per node/filespace.
    almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under 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.
    over 7 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Improve NQR Performance

    When doing an NQR on Nodes with tens of millions of files, the initial TSM database search and sort operation which takes place on the server takes several hours. We noticed that the hardware resource utliziation (CPU, DB2 Disks) is not very high ...
    about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    'dsmc i' should never re-backup restored-unchanged files

    'dsmc i' should never re-backup restored-unchanged files
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    Allow snapdiff backups of NetApp CIFS volumes containing widelinks

    TSM uses NetUseEnum() to determine if a NetApp CIFS share is connected before attempting a snapdiff backup. When run on a NetApp CIFS volume with widelinks, it results in the following error: ANS2831E: Incremental by snapshot difference cannot be ...
    about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    TSM Terabyte Front End Capacity Calculator - needs to be reworked for VE

    Please see mentioned PMR. Calculation of front end capacity for TSM for Virtual Environments is wrong, in my opinion. The results differ wildly depending on if the customer uses thin or thick disks and if there happen to be snapshots, for example....
    about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    TS4300 additional RESTful API information

    Add more information to RESTful API information available at TS4300.Currently only a basic stack of information is available. We would like to have more information like if a tape drive is in use or not and by whom.
    over 7 years ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 3 Not under consideration

    improve flexibility of Spectrum Protect Plus SLA association with Vcenter folders and vms

    present SPP design limitation don't well support SLA association with Vcenter folders and vms simultaneously. the association operations on folders and vm under same folder may cause VM failed to be associated with expected SLA as expected. custom...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Is a defect

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