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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

Lack of integration with IBM Spectrum Protect

Lack of an integration between IBM Spectrum Protect (SP) and IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management (CDM) using Pure Storage. Lack of this functionality is a major road block to deploy/adoption a supported combination of Pure, CDM and SP solution.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

FCM: User Interface

- Unified GUI for Unix/Linux/VMware/Windows- Show where (FCM, and/or TSM) the backups are and which backp-version of which application exist- Same look and feel like the TPC 5.1 WebGUI- WebGUI- Central interface for all FCM flavours- Optional Inte...
almost 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 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...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

TSM backup client fails to restore directories that were "over quota" when the backup was performed

Novell NSS file system (on a SLES based server) has a feature called "directory quota". It is possible to set such a quota on a directory, such that the quota is lower than the amount of data currently stored within the directory. TSM will backup ...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

Improve TSM Replication over high latency WAN links

I would like a TSM server option that would allow TSM to use as many parallel TCP connections as possible in order to maximize throughput along a Long Fat Pipe (WAN link w/ >60ms latency between TSM servers). Alternatively, I would like the TSM...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Planned for future release

TSM for VE: Exclude Windows Page File

TSM for VE needs to provide the ability to exclude Windows page files.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Planned for future release

VMWare SRM + TPC-R + XIV Integration

We use vmware SRM with VMs using XIV storage and using TPC-R for replica management and monitoring.Once the SRM has moved the VM, TPC-R shows an error message because the status is severe.IBM support explain us that the integration with SRM + XIV ...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 3 Future consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshots 4.1.6 support VMware 6.5

The customer HDI Seguros have IBM FlashSystem 7200 and IBM Spectrum control. They need create snapshots with an schedule with retentions. So, they need to use IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshots for this Use case. They Have VMware 6.5 and Oracle DB.
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 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

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