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    TSM node replication needs to support a Many to Many Server Grid

    TSM Node Replication needs to allow the target replication server to be defined on a node by node basis rather than a server by server basis
    almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

    SPP 10.1.3 Exchange DAG Production Restore: User must put in name of .EDB file

    If you select "Production Restore" you can restore to the original location on the original instance or a alternate location on the original instance. If you are restoring to the original location on the original instance, you do not need to enter...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    IBM Exchange Mailbox recovery tool takes a long time open a small mailbox

    In our SPP training lab we have 5 DAG's separated on 10 Servers. The DAG consists of 2 dedicated Exchange Servers Each.When trying to open a Mail Box using the tool after the SPP granular recovery completes. It can take between 15 to 20 minutes to...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Error message should be reported when backup attempted of whole nameless removable drive in Windows

    Hi, I submitted this as case TS001718427 but was advised to use an RFE instead. It's as follows: We've found that no warning is issued when complete backup is attempted of a removable drive that has no name. If trying to select *files* (or folders...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

    File Restore from Image backup

    I would like to propose an enhancement to TSM's image-level backup feature such that the recovery of individual or multiple file and/or directory objects is possible. This would provide a "best of both worlds" in the sense that very large scale fi...
    about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

    Allow tape drive to be part of more than one logical library

    I would like to have the possibility to assign one tape drive in a TS4300 to more than one logical library. Most tape libraries currently are not over-utilized, meaning there are a lot free time slots where drives are not in use. Having multiple (...
    over 3 years ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

    TSM for VE backups reporting completed when VM's have failed

    As we can see below from the summary report 21 VM's were processed, 20 completed successfully, 1 failed but the scheduled event completed successfully: 04/27/2016 22:07:46 Total number of virtual machines backed up successfully: 2004/27/2016 22:07...
    almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    Using VMware vSphere Tags for selection of VMs to back up

    We need better tools to select which VMs to be included in or excluded from a backup. The RFE ID 62515 is another indication of this. I suggest to implement into the TSM client the ability to select VMs to include/exclude based on VMware vSphere T...
    almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    Searching Indexing File Search Results Would Show Ownership and Permissions

    Customer has a desire to view the file ownership and permission on each file once a search is done on the global index
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Use enterprise SATA drive in ECE

    In our configuration, except SAS HDD/SSD and NVME, we also need to use enterprise SATA HDD/SSD as pdisk in ECE. These SATA drives can pass the ECE precheck for DpoFua and SCT ERC. The attachment is the list.
    over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

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