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    Backup STGPOOL multiple processes for individual node

    When running backup stgpool, I use 8 processes, however, if you have one very large node, it will not use multiple processes to backup that node, and when you're down to only one node left, it's a single-threaded process, using only one tape drive.
    about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

    APFS support in the TSM Mac Client

    Apple plan to release the Apple File System (APFS) in 2017: https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/FileManagement/Conceptual/APFS_Guide/Introduction/Introduction.html A preview of APFS is already available in macOS 10.12 Sierra....
    about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

    Be able to send individual node data that resides in directory container pools to tape

    Customer would like the ability to send the data from individual nodes whose data resides in directory container pools to tape.
    about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    Allow individual filespaces to be decommissioned - specifically for use with NAS nodes and Netapp NDMP backups

    Currently TSM (Spectrum Protect) offers two DECOMMISSION commands which are DECOMMISSION NODE and DECOMMISSION VM. However for NAS (NDMP) backups typically a node will be configured for each filer which will have numerous volumes being backed up v...
    about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    List all volumes needed for restore

    Maybe IBM can develop a tool for list all volumes needed to make a restore before it executes.
    about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Support for spanning logical volumes on TS7770 with zTape Air-Gap Tape Exporter (FC5995)

    A customer owns a solution for some of his backup jobs based on old native tape drives C07 / TS1140 whose End of Service already passed.  We’d like to replace it with a TS7770 with zTape Air-Gap Tape Exporter (FC5995) – which is a TS7770...
    about 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1

    Improve Spectrum Protect Snapshot for Unix to leverage Oracle BCT for offloaded tape backups

    Spectrum Protect Snapshot for Oracle supports mounting a FlashCopy target set to a backup server (auxiliary server) and to perform rman incremental level 1 offloads to a Spectrum Protect server from there. In order to identify the changed blocks i...
    about 6 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Future consideration

    Fibre Port Control from GUI on FS900 AE2/AE3 and FS9150

    Prudential is asking for the following, in regards to the FS900s, and FS9150s: "There should  be a distinction between, Offline (link failure), Inactive(admin Down), Online and SFP not present status. And user should have ability to change th...
    about 6 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    TSM VE backups snapshots filling up datastore and crashing VM.

    Please add an option in TSM that automatically cancels a VM backup when the snapshot is filling up the datastore. Without this functionality, the VM will crash and often requires extensive work for the VMware administrator to clean up the mess and...
    about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

    Avoid un-necessary audit logging for ls/mmlsattr/ILM list policy.

    ls/mmlsattr/ILM list POLICY are creating OPEN event logs. AFAIK, these actions doesn't open the file only read the metadata of a file, generating the audit logs on these kinda operations is creating lot of audit logs for us. It's mentioned in doc,...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

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