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    Define a launch window by SLA

    The need is to be able to set an SLA time from which everything left in the queue in the SLA is canceled.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Add support for EMC NVB using NDMP

    Add support for EMC NVB to speed up NDMP Backups of EMC filer file systems
    about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

    Add filspace start/backup end time to Monitoring for TSM

    The monitoring agent for Tivoli Storage Manager should collect information about backup start and end time for filespace backups (Occupancy view in Tivoli Enterprise Portal). This information is easily collectable in TSM database.
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Planned for future release

    Alert for Consistency Group status change

    Product: Storage insight PROActor: users want to be alerted for GlobalMirror stoppedDescription: we want to have an alert for monitoring Global mirror status change. In details we want to be alerted when we a consistency group goes to stoppedstauts
    over 6 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    IT Infrastruct Analyst

    Based on the case TS003038751, we would like to suggest the improvement in the product IBM Spectrum Protect Plus hypervisor inventory. When I have some host in "maintainance mode" in Vsphere environment the jobs show a lot warmings logs because o ...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    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
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

    Support for Linux on IBM z Systems

    Support for Linux on IBM z Systems is needed for DB2 ACS invoking IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot - formerly IBMTivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager.
    about 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Not under consideration

    ‘Max retries' and ‘wait time' value for VM backups

    One of our TDPVE datamover has been logging the following message for 3 days:ANS0361I DIAG: The VDDK Utility Thread may be hung processing another request.ANS0361I DIAG: Waiting up to another 3600000 milliseconds to process a request to VddkFullVM...
    about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under 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...
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Protect for Virtusl Enviroments

    Hello, The tech note tells me do not backup the guests using one schedule due to the 512 charter limitation. We want to use one schedule. Currently TSM for VE backup schedules will only backup one schedule at a time, if the schedule doesn't comple...
    about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

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