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    Spectrum Protect (TSM) version 7.1.7 certification with Informix ONBAR 12.10

    I want to know if the product Spectrum Protect (TSM) version 7.1.7 is certified to work with Informix ONBAR 12.10
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

    TSM Image Backup of encrypted Guardium FS (secfm)

    Current Situation and urgent request for enhancement: In our customer environment and according projects encryption services for a Filesystems or Databases are introduced on a regular basis. TSM as our backup suite therefore needs the ability to h...
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

    Compression for Virtualize is Selective

    Virtualize/Storwize Compression is selective by nature; meaning that it will allow you to compress data which will cause performance impact despite being able to identify non-compressible data. This leads to many performance related impacts.
    over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    extent mirroring rather than migrate within the context of EasyTier

    Customer is requesting that the EasyTier functionality that currently migrates extents from spinning disk to SSD/Flash incorporate an extent mirror command instead.
    over 11 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Allow specification of CN in LDAP authentication for TS4300 login

    Currently when configuring LDAP authentication on TS4300 the user CN is fixed cn=xxxxx.Modern authentication servers use different common names than "CN" - like "UID", ... Please add ability to specify which User CN is being used for LDAP connecti...
    over 5 years ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 1 Future consideration

    FS900 attribute "-rebuildpriority hostmax" works out well for client = Can this attribute be implemented in FS7200 , as client was looking for this option in FS7200 ( A LUG requirement )

    Pls consider this request as Urgent/High priority FS900 attribute "-rebuildpriority hostmax" works out well for client = Can this attribute be implemented in FS7200 , as client was looking for this option in FS7200 ( A LUG - Large User Group requi...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Change incremental action on change to ACL or xattr

    Currently, TSM will back up an entire file if the ACL or extended attributes of the file are changed, rather than updating the metadata. See:https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21448429 This leads to a lot of duplicate backups, and ...
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

    Restore by Tag

    Hello, in case we want to restore a lot of server we must do it by rest api or by clic one per one each vms we want restore. It very painfull to do that. It would be great to restore using tag. If my environnement is balised with tags I should abl...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Mirror snapshots to another cluster as a destination snapshot

    Ability to mirror a snapshot to a remote cluster - as a snapshot.
    over 11 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    Fast approximate df for filesets

    mmlsfileset df calculations are slow and causes high load on a server.  A fast approximate filesetdf (alike mmlsquota) is needed.
    over 11 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

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