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FlashCopy Manager & GLVM

In some installed server P systems we manage as outsourcer we need to copy storage data between two different datacenters (source in Italy, target in France; different storage type).The only way to manage copy is GLVMSome of the source systems hav...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Not under consideration

TSM node replication needs to support a Many to Many Server Grid

TSM Node Replication needs to allow the target replication server to be defined on a node by node basis rather than a server by server basis
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Spectrum scale - Read only dos attribute behavior on chmod 444/644

mobileye recently migrated from SONAS to scale . IBM approved for the SOANS system RPQ for "read only dos attributes on chmod 444/666. Mobileye are asking for the same RPQ on scale . attached the documentation approval for SONAS.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Spectrum Discover Reporting

Spectrum Discover is a powerful and useful tool, however, the reporting capability needs to match the product capability.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Not under consideration

Be able to specify the order of VM Backups

We want to be able to specify the order that virtual machines are backed up to fit in with time constraints that specific server present for the backup window
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

File Restore from Image backup

I would like to propose an enhancement to TSM's image-level backup feature such that the recovery of individual or multiple file and/or directory objects is possible. This would provide a "best of both worlds" in the sense that very large scale fi...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

If a job does not find any db PASSIVE to be backed up, IT SHOULD NOT FAIL !

If a job does not find any db PASSIVE to be backed up, IT SHOULD NOT FAIL !
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 3 Is a defect

DD Boost for OpenStorage

We need an OST plug-in that we will install on each media server. This plug-in includes the DDBoost libraries to integrate with the DD Boost server that runs on the Data Domain system.With EMC Data Domain Boost (DD Boost) for OpenStorage enables m...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

SCDM should allow for customization of permissions it sets on Oracle directories, or just leave the permissions alone.

SCDM changes the existing permissions on the /apps/oracle/admin directory and other files when an instant oracle database restore is performed. SCDM should either put them back exactly the way were before the restore job started, or allow for cust...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

DS8000 - Allow for volume names greater than 16 characters

The IBM DS8000 currently only allows for volumes names less than or equal to 16 characters in length. This is highly restrictive for systems with hosts that have a large number of volumes. Primarily because it is hard to provide a meaningful name ...
almost 9 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

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