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    TSM Missed backup status used to have a completion time of when the event missed now it's blank since 6.2.3. Please add back

    Product: Tivioli Storage Manager Server Version 6, Release 2, Level 3.0 This is specific to a Missed backupWhen a backup has Missed the timestamp is recorded in the actlog but when executing the QUERY EVENT it is not recorded. We would like the co...
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Is a defect

    Be able to specify the order of VM Backups

    We want to be able to specify the order that virtual machines are backed up to fit in with time constraints that specific server present for the backup window
    about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

    Provide a way to show running TSM scripts and to cancel them

    Currently there is now way to show which TSM scripts have been startet and furthermore they cannot be stopped. The only way to finish a script prematurely is to cancel every process that is startet by the script or to define exit conditions such a...
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    If a job does not find any db PASSIVE to be backed up, IT SHOULD NOT FAIL !

    If a job does not find any db PASSIVE to be backed up, IT SHOULD NOT FAIL !
    about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 3 Is a defect

    IBM SP for Exchange not truncating logs after Exchange backup

    Microsoft Exchange version is 2016 version 15.1 build 1591.10. We have implemented IBM SP for Exchange and have initiated several full backups. Backup completed successfully but not truncating logs.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Not under consideration

    DD Boost for OpenStorage

    We need an OST plug-in that we will install on each media server. This plug-in includes the DDBoost libraries to integrate with the DD Boost server that runs on the Data Domain system.With EMC Data Domain Boost (DD Boost) for OpenStorage enables m...
    about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Add more than 2 site support in SRA/SRM (VMware Site Recovery Manager for SVC

    VMware SRM (Site Recovery Manager) interacts with SVC SRA (Site Recovery Adapter) for Site-A to Site-B using Metro Mirror. When adding another Metro Mirror relationship Site-A to Site-C (for a complete different purpose on different LUN). The prev...
    over 13 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Copy Data Manager needs to support Metro Mirror or Metro Mirror with Consistency volumes

    CDM needs to support Metro Mirror in addition to global mirror change volumes. This would decrease the need for additional space on the primary storage.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    allow group pools to be used as the DEFAULT placement policy

    If the default placement policy. If a disk pool is allowed as the default rule there should never be a "no free space error" when attempting to write a new file.
    over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Advanced Analytics and cataloging for Spectrum Protect

    At present, Spectrum Protect does not seem to provide an advanced method of querying its database to find things such as duplicated files around the environment, file ownership, usage by owner, etc. This capability can make it difficult to find ob...
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

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