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FCM support for PowerLinux.

Currently Flashcopy Manager is only support on Linux x86_64 platforms.We would like to see support for PowerLinux setups.
almost 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

TS7700 forced premigration

Today premigration of a virtual volume in a TS7700 can be delayed with a storage class setting to delay to some future point in time. However, there is no control currently to prepone premigration or to specify a timeout when premigration has to o...
about 8 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Not under consideration

Support for Sony Library ODS-L30M

Support for Sony optical libraries (Sony ODS-L30M).Increase the support list in optical libraries for Spectrum Protect (TSM)
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM should support NDMP backup with VTL libtype

TSM Server should support NDMP backups with libtype VTL. It's documented that generally backups are faster when using a VTL and libtype is set to VTL instead of SCSI. Due to the limitation of TSM libtype VTL cannot be used as NDMP backups are not ...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Planned for future release

Changing Retention between Source and Target Replicated Nodes

We need the ability to have different retentions between on the source and target for each replicated node. That way we can store active data for the short term on the source and change the replicated node to long term retention.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Deletion of TDPSQL Legacy Backups

The ability to delete a specific Legacy backup at least through the CLI
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 3 Not under consideration

"-all"-Flag for "repairvdiskcopy -resync"

Enhancement for the command "repairvdisk -resync" with a flag "-all", which automatically includes all vdiskcopies which are not in sync.
about 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Add client backup status, backup files, size, date details for report with dashboard to understand backup failure and success

Product Tivoli Fastbackup for workstations 7.1.4.0 We are unable to get correct meaning full report on low level for TFB clients.1.We want report with client name, user identity, start date of backup, last backup date, last backup error, successfu...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Not under consideration

Extend TSM4VE to allow for "incremental forever" VMWare backups

Need to be able to do VMWare incremental image backups without doing periodic full backups.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Planned for future release

RFE for support of "mmafmctl <filesystem> failoverToSecondary ?j <fileset> --norestore" within mmcesdr

AFM-based DR support a “--norestore” option when invoking # mmafmctl <filesystem> failoverToSecondary –j <fileset> --norestore e.g. secondary# mmafmctl kyc2 failoverToSecondary -j sec02 --norestorePrimary Id (afmPrimaryId) 149423358914...
about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration