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    CSM Session Overview List - Sort by Name

    Suggestion when discussing CSM with Jack Henry. Back with TPC-R we were used to having the Session List displayed first by Status, and then sorted by Session name. So, the active sessions are at the top, and the remaining sessions are sorted by na...
    almost 9 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

    FCM support for PowerLinux.

    Currently Flashcopy Manager is only support on Linux x86_64 platforms.We would like to see support for PowerLinux setups.
    over 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

    TSM should support NDMP backup with VTL libtype

    TSM Server should support NDMP backups with libtype VTL. It's documented that generally backups are faster when using a VTL and libtype is set to VTL instead of SCSI. Due to the limitation of TSM libtype VTL cannot be used as NDMP backups are not ...
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Planned for future release

    Changing Retention between Source and Target Replicated Nodes

    We need the ability to have different retentions between on the source and target for each replicated node. That way we can store active data for the short term on the source and change the replicated node to long term retention.
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Deletion of TDPSQL Legacy Backups

    The ability to delete a specific Legacy backup at least through the CLI
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 3 Not under consideration

    Use SEEK_HOLE to improve handling of sparse files during backup and restore

    Backing up and restoring Linux sparse files is extremely slow.Is it possible for IBM to modify the software to use the SEEK_HOLE functionality to detect holes quickly? See details at this URL: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13252682/copying-a-...
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

    Extend TSM4VE to allow for "incremental forever" VMWare backups

    Need to be able to do VMWare incremental image backups without doing periodic full backups.
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Planned for future release

    Mark and Copy from TSM GUI results

    When you restore data using the Backup Archive Client, you can click the Report button to get a Detailed Status Report. If any files fail to restore, the 'Failed' number will be incremented and you can press the View button to see a list of un-res...
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

    "VM-GROUPs" for VMs

    Possibility to build a Group for VMs like Nodegroups for easier handling with the backup vm schedule
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Planned for future release

    PMR 37047,999,760

    System: Spectrum ProtectActor: Keep every files/directories "Updated date/time" correct Spectrum Protect backups and restore user's files and directories. When restoring files and directories "updated date/time" information in metadata set to "bac...
    about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 0 Not under consideration

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