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Support DB2 systems running on GPFS with FCM

DB2 supports build and operation on GPFS filesystems. Currently FCM does not support DB2 on GPFS (except for pureScale). Unilever would like a single filesystem pattern across pureScale and non-pureScale - based on GPFS. This implies an ability to...
over 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Enhance ACS support on TSM

Add support for multiple ACS servers on 1 TSM server.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Copy Data Management Support for IRIS 2020

Dear IBMer/Catalogic, I hope everything is well. Urgent request. US Hospital requesting IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management to support EPIC IRIS 2020 on AIX asap. WSC has EPIC IRIS 2020 up and running ready for testing. Requesting Catalogic developm...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Future consideration

Allow TSM client logs to be brought back to server for analysis when server staff do not have access to client file system

Allow TSM staff to bring back and use the TSM client logs to determine issues and error conditions at the time of backup failures
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Use a linux web client to do NDMP restores

There does not appear to be a way to restore a NDMP backup via a linux GUI client. This means that in order to do a restore a windows server needs to be provisioned, maintained and available purely for restoration purposes.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

PMR 37047,999,760

System: Spectrum ProtectActor: Keep every files/directories "Updated date/time" correct Spectrum Protect backups and restore user's files and directories. When restoring files and directories "updated date/time" information in metadata set to "bac...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Break message on FlashCopy step

On the Control server, the option :Target LPAR Device Setup define the Backup device description and the Backup device serial number.If one off this option is bad, the FlashCopy backup is break, one message on the target server stop the backup. On...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Request for support of 32 bit TDP client on 64 bit operating system.

Because you cannot install i.e TDP for Domino x32 on x64 OS you are unable to backup IBM products like Quickr for Domino. Quickr requires Domino x32, If you want to install TDP x32 you are unable to install because OS is x64. You cannot use TDP x6...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Not under consideration

SVC to have fail safe code if someone is trying to compress data that is not compressible. Applicable to V7000 too.

The SVC, and V7000 needs some sort of safety measure for the Realtime Compression feature. If the customer is trying to compress something that is not compressible, then the SVC/V7000 should be able to recognize it as such, stop it's compression e...
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

TSM VE TDP should have option to enable/disable quiesce before snapshot

There needs to be an option to enable/disable the queisce before the VMware snapshot is taken. The scope of this option needs to be:1. By wildcard VM names2. By wildcard Host names3. By wildcard Host Cluster names4. etc.in a syntax similar to the ...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration