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Decouple TSM database from Storage Control - allow for VM based TSM

At present, TSM is typically deployed on physical machines due to the requirement to present physical tape resources. I suggest that the database repository be decoupled from the data flow so as to allow the server to be virtualized and provide th...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Want to have multiuser backup/restore feature in IBM Spectrum Protect for Workstaion software

Wants to have multiuser backup/restore feature in IBM Spectrum Protect Workstation/IBM Tivoli Fastback for Workstation software as Bank of India customer wants this feature in the backup tool where any user can use any PC as per baking policy.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack for Workstations 1 Not under consideration

Wants to generate backup report in pdf format instead of xml -IBM fastback for workstations central administration console

Not able to download/export backup report in PDF format(giving option to download report in XML format) from Fastback Workstation Administration Console. This is primary requirement of customer(Bank of India).
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack for Workstations 1 Not under consideration

SPP - Interactive Donut

SPP - Interactive Donut - drill down from the Manage Protection > Protection by Policy.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

TSM Script variable assignment and flow control

Script flow control and variable use within TSM scripts is rudimentary, at best. Better flow control and the ability to use local variables would help creating useful and portable admin scripts.
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Additional Exclude Options made available within opt file

It is necessary when managing multiple environments and schedules to exclude vm's by any of the following; * datacentre * hostclusters * hosts * vm's * storge
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Option to mount the file system with the root being as a subdirectory

Control over where GPFS mounts the 'root' (or perhaps fakeroot) of a GPFS file system in order to preserve file paths across different topologies.
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

mmfsck -P poolname

Checking a file system with multiple pools means results in a check of the entire metadata for the file system when each pool is checked.  Not optimal.  Check individual pools instead.
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

Pool placement based on path

Ability to place data into a pool based on the directory location of the data.
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

Ability to flush / clear the cache (not to disk)

The cache on a node should be able to be cleared without unmounting and remounting the file system
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

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