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    CSM concurrent Global Mirror point-in-time copies

    We run with 4 Global Mirror failover/failback w/practice sessions that use the same Consistency Group hw session ID (0x3) and we would like to be able to perform the 'flash' point-in-time copies for all 4 sessions concurrently.
    almost 9 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Enhance ACS support on TSM

    Add support for multiple ACS servers on 1 TSM server.
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    GUI vs Command line

    When I issues the command SET ACCESS BACKUP * nodename from the command line they get the following results as seen in the GUI: However, if they try to define it the same way in the gui an error is received: The results end up looking like this: T...
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

    Allow TSM client logs to be brought back to server for analysis when server staff do not have access to client file system

    Allow TSM staff to bring back and use the TSM client logs to determine issues and error conditions at the time of backup failures
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Use a linux web client to do NDMP restores

    There does not appear to be a way to restore a NDMP backup via a linux GUI client. This means that in order to do a restore a windows server needs to be provisioned, maintained and available purely for restoration purposes.
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

    SP Recovery Agent Session Selection Saving

    When you utilize "IBM Spectrum Protect Recovery Agent" and configure a "New IBM Spectrum Protect server ..." under the "IBM Spectrum Protect Server" section, it will override any previously configured servers (removes any previously configured ser...
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    Request for support of 32 bit TDP client on 64 bit operating system.

    Because you cannot install i.e TDP for Domino x32 on x64 OS you are unable to backup IBM products like Quickr for Domino. Quickr requires Domino x32, If you want to install TDP x32 you are unable to install because OS is x64. You cannot use TDP x6...
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Not under consideration

    SVC to have fail safe code if someone is trying to compress data that is not compressible. Applicable to V7000 too.

    The SVC, and V7000 needs some sort of safety measure for the Realtime Compression feature. If the customer is trying to compress something that is not compressible, then the SVC/V7000 should be able to recognize it as such, stop it's compression e...
    over 13 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

    Add warnning message for Filesystem NFS excluded from Backup in option "all-local"

    We use the "Client option set" to make a backups for a group of servers. When we use the domain "All-local" and specify a NFS Filesystem in a "Include" statement, the TSM Server doesn't show a message warnning reporting that are exclude of backup.
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    Add schedule backup end time to Monitoring for TSM

    The monitoring agent for Tivoli Storage Manager should collect information about backup end time for client and also administrative schedules. Currently it is collecting only result and start time. This information is easily collectable in TSM dat...
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Not under consideration

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