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    "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

    Break message on FlashCopy step

    On the Control server, the option :Target LPAR Device Setup define the Backup device description and the Backup device serial number.If one off this option is bad, the FlashCopy backup is break, one message on the target server stop the backup. On...
    about 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    Request for Function to decompress data for Storage Pool Migration

    Request for function to decompress Data for Storage Migration pool. Currently, we have difficulty to migrate the Data backed up in Physical Tape Drive to new VTL Drive (Protectier + XIV) Data backed up in current Physical Tape Drive is compress by...
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Support standards for browser interoperability

    As per requirements listed at http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21515628 TSM Admin Center requires an obsolete, broken, unsupported brain dead version of Firefox. According to the requirements, version 3.5 is required for full funct...
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Planned for future release

    TSM VE TDP should have option to enable/disable quiesce before snapshot

    There needs to be an option to enable/disable the queisce before the VMware snapshot is taken. The scope of this option needs to be:1. By wildcard VM names2. By wildcard Host names3. By wildcard Host Cluster names4. etc.in a syntax similar to the ...
    about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

    IBM Spectrum Protect for IBM i BRMS

    As per Jeff's email belowFrom: Jeff Fosmo/Rochester/IBM@IBMUSTo: David Bhaskaran/Rochester/IBM@IBMUSCc: Jose Mao-Cheia/South Africa/IBM@IBMZA, Deon George/Australia/IBM@ibmau, Paul Maguire/UK/IBM@ibmgb, Redouane Acheche1/United Arab Emirates/IBM@i...
    about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Add ability to logically group multiple storage pool as 'Storage Groups'

    Currently, all housekeeping jobs are done on a per storage pool basis. e.g.PARALLELmigrate stg pool1 lo=0 wait=yesmigrate stg pool2 lo=0 wait=yesmigrate stg pool3 lo=0 wait=yesSERIAL PARALLELreclaim stg pool1 thr=50 wait=yesreclaim stg pool2 thr=5...
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    GPFS as gateway for different storage system

    Michael Daubman and Lisa visited CMA(China Meteorological Administration). in the meeting, CMA raised this requirement CMA has multiple GPFS cluster and they also have different NAS storage system from different vendors. usually, they will set up ...
    about 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    IM SPectrum Protect support for expired data report

    URGENT Requirement : Nedbank, in South Africa, are a large consumer of Spectrum Protect ans many other IBM products and are an ELA customer.. They urgently require assistance with an enhancement for them to be able to see when files were expired/d...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

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