IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Backups whitout vmware quiescing

    If a problem whitin a vm exist and quiescing does not work, it would be good to be able to do an crash consistent backup.
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

    SVC Global Mirror with Change Volumes. Force a remote sync cycle on demand.

    Need a way to achieve an "application consistent" remote sync point on demand, without the need to pause the application for a full cycle period. Need to pause the application for 5 seconds or less. That is, need GMCV to perform like Traditional G...
    over 12 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Want to have multiuser backup/restore feature in IBM Spectrum Protect for Workstaion software

    Wants to have multiuser backup/restore feature in IBM Spectrum Protect Workstation/IBM Tivoli Fastback for Workstation software as Bank of India customer wants this feature in the backup tool where any user can use any PC as per baking policy.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack for Workstations 1 Not under consideration

    Wants to generate backup report in pdf format instead of xml -IBM fastback for workstations central administration console

    Not able to download/export backup report in PDF format(giving option to download report in XML format) from Fastback Workstation Administration Console. This is primary requirement of customer(Bank of India).
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack for Workstations 1 Not under consideration

    SPP - Interactive Donut

    SPP - Interactive Donut - drill down from the Manage Protection > Protection by Policy.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    TDP Domino support for RHEL6 64-bit

    Currently, the latest TDP for Domino for Linux x86 is version 5.5.3, which supports only RHEL 5 for 64-bit systems. Most customers are using Domino with RHEL 6 64-bit. Do we have roadmap to support RHEL6 64-bit with TDP for Domino?
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Planned for future release

    Image backup of Oracle ASM

    Customer is interested in doing raw backup of Oracle ASM disk. Currenty is only supported via TDP For Databases or via FlashCopy Manager. This is only valid like logical backup but our customer wants to know if it is possible to save the volumes w...
    almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

    support larger blocksizes for virtual volumes

    AUDIT VOLUME and RESTORE VOLUME performancefor virtual volumes (VV) is much lower than write performancefor VV. The difference of performance is measured not in percentor tens of percent but in factors like tens. For example fromPMR48910,077 we ge...
    almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    TSM for Virtual Environments Server Backup Sets

    Requesting the ability for TSM4VE to be able to create group listings of servers to do backups and restores. Basically the ability to say that if we want to restore an application enviornment which spans multiple servers, we can restore that set o...
    almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

    Provide support in FlashCopy Manager for refresh from pureScale to non-pureScale DB2

    IBM FlashCopy manager needs to support new DB2 (10.5) function that allows pureScale-based DB2 systems to be restored to a non-pureScale-based system. Prior to 10.5, this was not possible, but now, based on an OFFLINE backup, it is possible to res...
    almost 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

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