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    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

    Direct NFS access to VMWare Datastores

    The need is to be able to read data to backup from NFS storage, directly from physical or logical proxy proxy when ESX storage is provided by NFS share (not SAN attached).
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    Energy Saving = « EasyTier » + « Start and Stop » : Automatically Turning off/on the cold data storage

    The Idea for energy saving is to turning off the storage (Disk drive or SSD/FCM drive) where cold data is stored and just turning on this storage when data is requested. IBM EasyTier move cold data on slow drives and move hot data on fast drives. ...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

    TSM ADMIN CLI Timeout

    Idle timeouts do not operate when using the TSM ADMIN CLI.This is violation of security standards and requires an immediate fix or workaround...ADMINIDLETIMEOUT doesnt seem to work for idle admin sessions...
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Support VMware 6.5 and SVC v8.2 with FCM 4.1.6

    Require support for FCM/TSM4VE 4.1.6/7.1.6 with VMware ESX 6.5 and SVC 8.2.x
    almost 7 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

    when the file name is longer then 255 character it does not get copied to the SMB share, in the future version we would like to see a error message, stating the file name is too long "

    when a file is not getting copied, end user dont have any clue that file has not been copied from the windows. An error message would tell them to make the file name shorter.
    over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    provide enhanced alternative to file-list with Spectrum Protect B/A Client

    Currently, the filelist parameter requires a flat file to be provided. This is a poor performing data structure, and IBM development has pointed out that performance could be increased by being able to provide an alternative data structure, such a...
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Protect PLUS support RedHat v6.4

    Important Telco company (Vodefaone) need to support RedHat v6.4 with Spectrum Protect PLUS.They have some internal applications and it's impossible to upgrade RH version.The objective it's to protect (with SPP) Oracle 11g.
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Protect PLUS support Oracle 10g

    Important Telco company (Vodefaone) need to support Oracle 10g over RedHat v5.9 with Spectrum Protect PLUS.They have some internal applications and it's impossible to upgrade RH version.
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Protect PLUS support RedHat v5.9

    Important Telco company (Vodefaone) need to support RedHat v5.9 with Spectrum Protect PLUS.They have some internal applications and it's impossible to upgrade RH version and oython 2.4.The objective it's to protect (with SPP) Oracle 10g.
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

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