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    TS7700 should allow option to overwrite search history

    The TS7700 will retain up to 10 previous search results when querying logical or physical volumes. Once the customer has created 10 search results any additional search attempts will be denied until the customer deletes one or more of the previous...
    almost 7 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Planned for future release

    ALLOWREORGTABLE as a TSM command

    It would be nice if ALLOWREORGTABLE were a TSM command and we didn't have to restart the server and change the dsmserv.opt file. Production systems can't afford to take down the server and start the server in order to make a change like that.
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Planned for future release

    Restore a VM without choose a specific /site/repository/archive cloud /etc

    Hello support, We created 2 policy (SLA_site1 / SLA_site2 ) that we affected to Datastores on each site . So VM can be on the policy SLA_SITE1 or SLA_SITE2 depending of their location when we backup them. Now we want to restore a backup from a spe...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Access DB2 with Python

    How to connect to DB2 Database with or via a python script?
    over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Not under consideration

    TSM for VE backups reporting completed when VM's have failed

    As we can see below from the summary report 21 VM's were processed, 20 completed successfully, 1 failed but the scheduled event completed successfully: 04/27/2016 22:07:46 Total number of virtual machines backed up successfully: 2004/27/2016 22:07...
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    Update Behavior of TSM Node Fields

    The update behavior of several Node fields seems to be strange. e.g. The Field LASTACC_TIME is defined as the "The last date and time that the client node accessed the server". When a node with nodename NodeA tries to logon to a tsm server the ser...
    almost 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

    Using VMware vSphere Tags for selection of VMs to back up

    We need better tools to select which VMs to be included in or excluded from a backup. The RFE ID 62515 is another indication of this. I suggest to implement into the TSM client the ability to select VMs to include/exclude based on VMware vSphere T...
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    SRA - unmap source volumes from hosts during failover

    source volumes are only unmapped from the hosts during SRM "reprotect" operation instead of during "failover" operation
    over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

    Shorten AFM/DR RPO Interval

    The current design is that minimal RPO interval is 60 minutes. That is too long and will loss of huge data. Customer expect to set it to 1-5 minutes. 1-5 minutes RPO interval is acceptable in most of scenarios and it can help us to catch up compet...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    enhanced encryption

    stronger encryption, for example encryption with the AES algorithm with a key with a length of at least 256.
    almost 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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