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    dsmmigundelete command re-create stub files for individual files

    When space management migrate file to TSM storage, a stub file created in place of the original file, in some case, user need to recover one or more stub files because it deleted by mistake, and if these file are not protect by B/A client, the onl...
    about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 0 Not under consideration

    SVC option to remove vdisk on schedule

    Problem description: if vdisk deletions are requested, we always keep them an extra month ; this to prevent if a vdisk deletion was requested by mistake ; or to restore files from itCurrent workaround: we created some scripts to make this possible...
    about 9 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Mirror snapshots to another cluster as a destination snapshot

    Ability to mirror a snapshot to a remote cluster - as a snapshot.
    about 12 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    Fast approximate df for filesets

    mmlsfileset df calculations are slow and causes high load on a server.  A fast approximate filesetdf (alike mmlsquota) is needed.
    about 12 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

    HyperVFull backup command failing when guests not available

    HyperVFull backup command failing when guests not available. even though hyper-v guests not availabe backup command should returned return code ZERO instead of 12.
    about 15 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

    FCM Oracle: Possibility to let RMAN control FCM Backups (and to see them in OEM)

    Today with FCM 4.1, FCM's disk only backups cannot be seen in RMAN (Oracles Standard Backup Interface).This RFE is to implement a new interface in order to see FCM Backups in RMAN and Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM)
    about 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

    Volume Creation date and User data

    We would like to see the ability to see the volume creation date and what user created the volume as a selectable field in the GUI
    about 9 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    dsmc query backup -detail show all volume IDs

    dsmc query backup xxx -detail only display one volume id, please display all volumes IDs or volume_names used by xxx objects.
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

    Backup Client for Debian Linux

    Debian und viele andere Linuxdistributionen (z.B. Ubuntu, Univention, Knopix, ...) nutzen nicht das RedHat Packeage format rpm, sondern ein anderes Format namens .deb. Damit ist man bei der Erstellung der Pakete immer auf zusätzliche Konvertierung...
    about 15 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

    resync backup after loss of the cbt

    The vmware backup mechanism is based on the vmware CBT to make incremental backups. After an esx crash, the cbt is reset and a FULL backup is made (new base backup). a resync backup feature will be helpful this would take a lot of time to resync b...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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