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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

SpecV queue full condition not being properly retried/recovered by MSDSM

Ian Mac Quarrie and Bill Passingham are aware of this issue at GEICO. Spectrum Virtualize in combination with Windows MSDSM is currently experiencing issues when Spectrum Virtualize hits a queue full condition. This condition needs to be fixed.Bil...
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Is a defect

"-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

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

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

"VM-GROUPs" for VMs

Possibility to build a Group for VMs like Nodegroups for easier handling with the backup vm schedule
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Planned for future release

Request for Function to decompress data for Storage Pool Migration

Request for function to decompress Data for Storage Migration pool. Currently, we have difficulty to migrate the Data backed up in Physical Tape Drive to new VTL Drive (Protectier + XIV) Data backed up in current Physical Tape Drive is compress by...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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

Obtaining SnapDiff backup base snapshot name

When running an incremental SnapDiff backup on NetApp volumes from the BA client, a differential snapshot is created on the NetApp in the beginning of each backup, and compared with the base snapshot remained from the previous backup. On the end o...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

NTACL transfer function with Spectrum Scale 4.2.0.3

With Spectrum Scale 4.2.0.3, the security attribute called NTACL is not transferred from Cache to Home using AFM function. This attribute used to be transferred with GPFS 4.1.0.7 which is used by the customer.
about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration