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    CSM Topology Details Export to Not Add Spaces to CG/Session ID

    Currently when we export the CSM Topology Details if there are Sessions/CG's which are a single character long, the CSV export will export those like ' 7' instead of just as 7 which means if we are using the data in another spreadsheet, we have to...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 4 Not under consideration

    Enable Aspera for Spectrum Protect on AIX server

    The initial implementation of Aspera with TSM will be on xLinux. Very few of our customers run TSM on xLinux. Most run TSM server on Windows and AIX, with larger installations on AIX. Aspera needs to be integrated with TSM on AIX server to support...
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Protect Support for BeeGFS File System

    Dupont would like IBM Spectrum Protect to protect BeeGFS parallel File system. It is POSIX based and Open source.
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

    Support to backing up MongoDB on Ubuntu servers

    We have MongoDB on Ubuntu servers and need to backup them.
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    Backing up prefered SQL Always-on node

    We want to be able to choose which node to backup on a SQL Always-on infrastructure.
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    Allow DSMC Incremental to follow expiration logic of deleted files, even if using filelist parameter.

    When a typical DSMC incremental backup identifies that a file is no longer there, it notifies the TSM server, which places the file in inactive state, which then puts the retention of that file under control of the policy settings for files in tha...
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

    TSM Missed backup status used to have a completion time of when the event missed now it's blank since 6.2.3. Please add back

    Product: Tivioli Storage Manager Server Version 6, Release 2, Level 3.0This is specific to a Missed backupWhen a backup has Missed the timestamp is recorded in the actlog but when executing the QUERY EVENT it is not recorded. We would like the com...
    almost 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Is a defect

    Provide a way to show running TSM scripts and to cancel them

    Currently there is now way to show which TSM scripts have been startet and furthermore they cannot be stopped. The only way to finish a script prematurely is to cancel every process that is startet by the script or to define exit conditions such a...
    almost 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    VMWare SRM + TPC-R + XIV Integration

    We use vmware SRM with VMs using XIV storage and using TPC-R for replica management and monitoring.Once the SRM has moved the VM, TPC-R shows an error message because the status is severe.IBM support explain us that the integration with SRM + XIV ...
    over 10 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 3 Future consideration

    CES/NFS/SMB Function Enhancements

    1) CES FO/FB timeout, shorten the io pending time in the failure of CES node failure/GPFS node failure/one of FG failure in replication mode. The io pending time should be less than 4-5s. 2) AFM/DR RPO Interval, the minimal RPO interval is 60 minu...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

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