IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    The TSM Fastback function does not meet the needs of

    Please expand the storage space of the the Fastback software supports more than 2TB, users have 4TB of data need to be backed up
    about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack Center 2 Not under consideration

    Application Aware VMWare Flash Copy Manager

    Flash copy manager needs to be application aware for database engines running on Windows in a VMWare environment. In order of importance Microsoft SQL Server, IBM UDB/LUW, Oracle, My SQL. The current ability of flash copy manager requires the data...
    about 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration

    TSM backup support for 2016 Nano Servers

    We are in need of the ability to backup 2016 Nano Servers with TSM EE
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

    IBM Spectrum Protect for Enterprise Resource Planning 8.1.0 for HANA running on SUSE 12 LE

    We need to have the IBM Spectrum Protect ERP 8.1 for HANA running on SUSE 12 LE on POWER.
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Not under consideration

    Specific SVC User Group for FCM Actions

    For the use of FCM with SVC, a specific SVC user is needed which has to be part of a specific group. Currently, the user must be member of the group "Administrator". As this group has a very high set of critical rights, it would be better to have ...
    over 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Planned for future release

    Decomission Enhancements

    We have been talking to multiple large clients regarding decommission feature.Decomission Node/VM is a great utility but it doesn't fully support all customers needs in it's current form. Decomission Node/VM should support the following options fr...
    almost 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

    SVC - Flashcopy incremental sync report sizes

    Currently when taking a SVC Flashcopy snapshot there's no way of recording or reporting how much was copied from the source to target vdisks.
    over 13 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Utilize FlashCopy Manager to do ad-hoc clones from the backup target volumes to eliminate impact on production systems

    Customers are asking for the ability to clone their database applications (Oracle, ERP, etc..) and not impact the production system on an ad-hoc basis. They want to be able to 'clone on demand' during the day and the existing process causes a shor...
    over 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration

    Bypass VSS_E_MAXIMUM_NUMBERS_OF_VOLUMES_REACHED limitation on

    We need a new feature to bypass the VSS Limit of 64 Volumes during the Backups.
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Planned for future release

    Virtualize - Assign or change SCSI ID for volume – removed in 7.6.GUI

    Assign or change SCSI ID for volume – removed in 7.6 GUI. No option in the GUI to change or assign SCSI ID. Customer uses GUI almost exclusively - not CLI (only most experienced SAN Admin uses the CLI and then only when required. As the move thing...
    almost 9 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

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