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Option to exclude VM folder in DOMAIN.VMFULL

DOMAIN.VMFULL all-vm;-vmfolder=DR-Machines,*TEST* -vmfolder will work in the same way as "-vm" excluding certain folders or folders containing som word
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Not under consideration

provide enhanced alternative to file-list with Spectrum Protect B/A Client

Currently, the filelist parameter requires a flat file to be provided. This is a poor performing data structure, and IBM development has pointed out that performance could be increased by being able to provide an alternative data structure, such a...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Enable Aspera for Spectrum Protect on AIX server

The initial implementation of Aspera with TSM will be on xLinux. Very few of our customers run TSM on xLinux. Most run TSM server on Windows and AIX, with larger installations on AIX. Aspera needs to be integrated with TSM on AIX server to support...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Support for mmrquotad to forward quota information from a remote AFM filesystem

When using a solution based on AFM to share a GPFS cluster among different sites, the AFM caches are the ones exposed (e.g. mounted by NFS) to servers on the local sites. The available version of mmrquotad daemon (which dates from 2010) is able to...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

Allow DSMC Incremental to follow expiration logic of deleted files, even if using filelist parameter.

When a typical DSMC incremental backup identifies that a file is no longer there, it notifies the TSM server, which places the file in inactive state, which then puts the retention of that file under control of the policy settings for files in tha...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Snapshot backup attempted & error shows job failed,when only database snapshot failed,everything else backed up successfully.

Currently, a snapshot backup is attempted and it generates an error that the job has failed when really it hasn't, only the database snapshot has failed, all the other databases get backed up successfully. This results in additional overhead for a...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

ZDMF non disruptive dataset move

We have many 3380's and small 3390's.Requirement is to be able to copy/move datasets from 3380 to 3390 non disruptively + 3390 datasets on small 3390 volumes to large 3390 volumes.By non disruptive i mean without even momentary start /stop of eg C...
almost 3 years ago in zDMF 2 Not under consideration

TSM for Mail for 64bit Domino on Linux x64

There's currently no compatible TSM for Mail client available in order to backup a server running IBM Domino 9 - 64bit for Linux.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Planned for future release

Simultaneous backup to primary and copypool using lanfree.

Simultaneous backup to primary and copypool using lanfree. Our customer is interesting in doing simultaneous backup to primary and copy storage pool.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Validate Hostbus adapter for SVC

adapter 1: Server: HPe Proliant Rackserver G9/G10 HBA: Option 1: - Emulex SN1600E2P- FW: 12.8.352.12 - Driver Version: 12.8.329.1Option 2:- Emulex SN1100E2P - FW:12.8.352.12- Driver Version 12.8.329.1 Link to the matrix:https://www-03.ibm.com/syst...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

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