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TSM Snapdiff backup and usage of Snapdiffchangelog in Stagingdirectory

First concerns is with the stagingdirectory itself. In documentation for BA client (7.1.3) is the following statement:"The stagingdirectory option defines the location where the client can keep anydata that it generates to perform its operations. ...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 0 Not under consideration

More intelligent Caching

With the DS8000 IBM has several patents and very efficient caching algorithms. This interlectural property should be also available in the SVC
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

TSM-VE : better handling of VM template backup

may I suggest to not report a VM template backup as failed as it is done now when the VMENABLETEMPLATEBACKUPS is specified in the datamover option file ? It dosen't make sens to raise Error when excpected behavior has occured. If I specify the opt...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Support end user activation for HyperSwap relationship suspension and activation to allow batch workload best performance

Spectrum Virtualize HyperSwap current implementation does not allow selectively pausing/activating active-active replication for a volume or a consistency group protected by the HyperSwap mechanism. This forbids clients to host latency sensitive w...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

DS8K Should Be Intelligent Enough to Compare Source and Target Data for Remote Copies

When a relationship between a source and target system is accidentally lost, the DS8K must re-copy all the data. Instead the DS8K should be able to compare the source and target data so that only changed data or missing structures are copied. This...
almost 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Single VM Backup History

A common question is ‘why is my VM taking ages to backup'. A Gannt chart view is a really powerful tool for answering these questions. In the example below the VM backed up mostly between 19:00 and 23:00, except on Mondays when there was extra chu...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Configure TSM4VE without admin account on Spectrum protect server

Make it possible to configure the TSM4VE interface without the need for an administrative account on the Spectrum protect server. Currently TSM4VE configuration needs an administrative SP account in order to configure the product - if no admin is ...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Enhance Monitoring Capabilities by adding new Performance-Metric

Our Load on Ganesha NFS drives the Services into stale conditions where manual interventions are required and possibly tuning measures needed. Currently there is no way to figure what Limits are hit within Ganesha and logging seems not to help a l...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect for VE backup report

We need IBM Spectrum Protect Operation Center to be able to generate a SP (TSM) for VE backup report on daily bases. We need this report to cover successful and failed SP (TSM) for VE backup jobs and to be able to automatically e-mail to our manag...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

enhance for multi-session retrieve functionality

Multi-sessions is not enchanced in retrieve operations while it is for restore operations
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

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