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    IBM Spectrum Protect - Request for unique identifier for summary items

    Please see attached file.
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

    NetApp SnapDiff Backup without Domain Admin Rights

    We need to do a SnapDiff-Backup of our NetApp. The backup-user must not be a member of the Domain Administrators group.At this time there is no possibility of doing the backup without the membership of Domain Administrators.
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    StorM performance evalution problem

    StorM evaluates performance better than the actual machine.StorM evaluates at 300,000 IOPS or more/1 msec or less under the following conditions. The bottleneck is CPU Utilization.FS7200, 4.8TB FCM x 13, DRAID6, Read:Write=99%:1%, Block size=6KiB,...
    almost 6 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    SVR5 format in installation packages for Solaris 11 b/a client is needed

    TSM backup and archive clients on Solaris 11 should be delivered in an IPS/SVR5 package Format (at the moment it is the SVR4 package Format). This “new” package format SVR5 was introduced with the release of Solaris 11 in 2011 (hence it's more tha...
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

    Communicate AWS S3 by using Private Endpoint VPC instead of public internet from ISP.

    Hi Team, Communicate AWS S3 by using Private Endpoint VPC instead of public internet from ISP. Security concern the AWS services to access via VPC only. Can you please update is IBM working development?. If yes, which version VPC option is available?
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Needs more information

    allow metromirror between hyperswap clusternodes

    Provide possibility to create metro mirror relationships between 2 storwize hyperswap cluster nodes.currently this can be only done through command line.
    almost 9 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Protect for Ubuntu Server for IBM Z and LinuxONE

    Since more about 3 years now I'm fighting to get support from IBM for an Enterprise Backup solution (TSM / Spectrum Protect) for Ubuntu Server for IBM Z and LinuxONE.This already harmed IBMs and Canonical's business, since customers asked already ...
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 1 Future consideration

    Periodic Backup of Backed up Data (Monthlies etc)

    If a TSM administrator needs to take periodic, i.e. weekly, monthly, half year, year end additional copies of data other than 'file/unstructured' the administrator must currently create additional schedules to take additional copies. A lot of envi...
    almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

    TCP/IP Transmission Statistics

    I received a request that TDMF show in performance reporting at a Session, and optionally at a Volume level, the gross amount of data bytes to send to remote sites over TCP/IP and the accumulated number of bytes processed. Including Percent Comple...
    almost 6 years ago in TDMF z/OS 0 Future consideration

    TSM replication process duration

    I think a duration parameter will be great with the replication process of TSM. Duration also exist with expiration, reclamation so why not implement this also with replication
    almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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