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    Supporting Cloud-Container Storage pools on zLinux

    Cloud-container storage pools is a feature that that already exists on Spectrum Protect family but it is not supported neither has a roadmap for it on top of Linux on Z.Today Sicoob already uses Spectrum protect on Linux on Z and not having a prop...
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Enable the use of VPC Endpoint Interface URL for S3 bucket access when defining Cloud Container Storage Pool in Operations Ce

    When defining a cloud container storage pool, an option of 'Other' URL is given, and in the CLI a CLOUDUrl can be specified with a custom URL. Instructions say to use the region S3 endpoint URL. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-protect/8.1.11?...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

    Include preferred node ID in standard CLI-listing of all vDisks

    Can we include the preferred node ID in the standard listing about all vDisks in the SVC cluster, which can be requested via CLI command -lsvdisk ? The averall listing should include this as standard output, but it could be de-selected by using fi...
    almost 13 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    TDP support for Microsoft SQL Server Express

    We have several customer with a mix of Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008/2012 and editions express, standard and enterprise.To keep it simple we are using tdp to backup the sql servers. Sadly SQL Server Express isn't supported.It looks like the backu...
    almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

    TSM currently can recognized different file systems types. I woud like TSM by default to be able to recognize GFS2 file syste

    TSM need to be able to recognize GFS2 file systems like it does with any other file system type seen by TSM. When TSM is installed and configured it should be able to see this file system with out any manually intervention. It should be a native s...
    almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

    Documentation update regarding Deduplication enabled Storage Pools using FILE Device Class type

    Documentation update referencing the importance of proper storage pool "DATAFormat" type for DEDUPLICATION enabled SEQUENTIAL ACCESS Storage Pools of FILE Device Class. As the user defines Sequential Access Storage Pool of FILE Device Class type t...
    almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Support DB2 systems running on GPFS with FCM

    DB2 supports build and operation on GPFS filesystems. Currently FCM does not support DB2 on GPFS (except for pureScale). Unilever would like a single filesystem pattern across pureScale and non-pureScale - based on GPFS. This implies an ability to...
    almost 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

    Enhance ACS support on TSM

    Add support for multiple ACS servers on 1 TSM server.
    almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    BVIR History Data Retention to be Increased in IBM TS7700

    IBM TS7700 Stores its history information in its database but only stores previous 90 days worth of data which can be extracted using BVIR from the host and then graphically displayed using VEHSTATS. This 90 days worth of data & VEHSTATS is us...
    over 8 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    Allow TSM client logs to be brought back to server for analysis when server staff do not have access to client file system

    Allow TSM staff to bring back and use the TSM client logs to determine issues and error conditions at the time of backup failures
    almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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