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    RFE to allow exclusion of files and folders from a VE backup

    When doing VM backup using TSM4VE, is there any way to exclude swap and C:\temp from the backup? They take up considerable space and resources even if everything gets deduplicated out eventually. Type Amount inspected [GB] Amount backed up [GB]VM ...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    Allow TSM client schedules to use "minutes" for PERUnits

    Please allow the PERUnits to be able to be updated to a value smaller than "Hours" i.e. minutes or seconds
    about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    RFE: Simplify management in allowing native user to cahnge their own password.

    Any native user that is able to login into SPP should be able to set/change their own password regardless of the resource groups and roles assigned to them
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    Drop off state F-SYS after Basic Hyperswap

    Hello Support, after loading the Basic Hyperswap configuration all secondary devices get state F-SYS. This state persists untill the next IPL. CSM has commands to Suspend PPRC-Pairs ("Stop") and to Delete PPRC-Pairs ("Terminate"). I expect another...
    over 8 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 3 Future consideration

    Azure Archive Tier Blob Tagging

    Azure Archive tier is only usable by changing blobs after write. Archive blobs are not readable, but metadata is still there. It's very similar to HSM, with a recall delay of up to 15 hours. Archive tier has a very low storage cost, and is suitabl...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Protect: Integration of exfs -filesystem needed, minor changes to xfs, HPE will give assistance

    IBM supports XFS as filesystem in IBM spectrum protect Linux-client. We were using this solution on our scientific-storage for several years now (Suse SLES 11 with HA and XFS (CXFS as well at our second company site) as filesystem on our disk-shel...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

    TSM for Virtual Environments, lacks the ability to accept out-of-date VMware tools to run application protection.

    After upgrading, an ESXi host with a minor update, application protection for Microsoft SQL Server fails with the error below. ANS9499W VMware tools on virtual machine VM need to be updated. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager application protection will n...
    about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    Automate process to deploy OS+drivers in protocol nodes

    Today approach to deploy protocol nodes is to use xcat for protocol node OS+drivers and Toolkit for protocol node rpms. This request is to provide a supported automation to deploy OS+drivers for protocol nodes.
    over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Reduce Spectrum Protect Operatin Center query to bring down load on SP database

    Regarding TS004537647. That is correct that there's no issue with finishing the daily work in a timely matter. There are some tunables to reduce the frequency of queries or stop them altogether. One of the background threads that is the busiest is...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Not under consideration

    SCDM - RFE title Granular LDAP queries than trying to scan in the entire AD Domain.

    Storage Copy Data Management - We currently cannot handle scale for the amount of LDAP groups that are being attempted to be loaded for a case. Based on the error displaying an "out of memory" error message, it appears that the issue is related to...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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