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GPFS as gateway for different storage system

Michael Daubman and Lisa visited CMA(China Meteorological Administration). in the meeting, CMA raised this requirement CMA has multiple GPFS cluster and they also have different NAS storage system from different vendors. usually, they will set up ...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 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

Senior Technical Specialist

Add another Security Role.The Role is the same as Monitor with the added function of "Download Support Package".
almost 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Support Request-Spectrum Protect with SteelFusion

We would like IBM to look at Spectrum Protect and a product called SteelFusion working together as a supported configuration for CBI (Chicago Bridge & Iron)
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

TSM Fastback Server has extremely slow read operations from disk

TSM Fastback Server has extremely slow read operations from disk:- all restore operations with both methods, Fastback Mount and Fastback BMR,- DR to TSM and- long term proxy backups to TSM.The speed of restore does not exceed 10Mbit/s (aggregate) ...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack 2 Not under consideration

64 bit support for TSM System Backup and Recovery

TSM for System Backup and Recovery runs in 32 bit only mode, making it impossible to run with the latest TSM client and TDP levels. My customer is a long time Sysback customer and uses it to write bootable backups to TSM. They now must move to a 6...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Planned for future release

Wildcard Support for VMFolder option in TSM4VE

We have different retention requirement for VM backup. so I was wondering if wild card is supported than we would not have to modified OPT file every time we add new customer..
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

INCLUDE INACTIVATION DATE IN QUERY BACKUP

Include a new column showing the inactivation date of inactive objects in the output of dsmc query backup. i.e. dsmc q ba -ina -subdir=yes -showinactivationdate /mydir/* Also, it would be vastly simplify parsing if the dsmc client could do tab del...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

DELETE FILESPACE FROM STORAGE POOL (ESPECIALLY COPY)

Allow DELETE FILESPACE to specify a storage pool. i.e. delete filespace <nodename> <filespace> stgpool=<stgpool>
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

TSM for Databases clients not restorable from backupsets

Currently if you use TSM for Databases to backup your databases you can't use backupsets because the restoring of the data doesn't work. Currently if you want to have a database backup included in a backupset you need to create a separate dump fro...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

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