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    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...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

    Backup client for SAP HANA

    There is a need to develop a real backup solution for SAP HANA. As it is today all backups are done on a full-backup base from files. Since the database can be quite large this is a problem.
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Planned for future release

    Provide general ability for the ordinary user to use SpMg Tape Optimized Recall

    The Tape Optimized Recall (TOR) feature finally being provided in the TSM client 6.3 should immediately be "expanded" to allow the ordinary user to take advantage of this long sought feature. The (initial) root limitation on TOR is severely limiti...
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 4 Not under consideration

    Supporting Cloud-Container Storage pools on zLinux

    Cloud-container storage pools is a feature that that already exists on Spectrum Protect family but it is not supported neither has a roadmap for it on top of Linux on Z.Today Sicoob already uses Spectrum protect on Linux on Z and not having a prop...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    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...
    over 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...
    over 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    Information for SpMg file systems (dsmdf) should be displayable on all nodes in an HSM cluster; not just on the mgmt node

    Information for SpMg file systems (through the provided standard tool dsmdf) should be displayable on all nodes in an HSM cluster; not just on the mgmt node. More than just being a convenient feature to see the file system state, inode information...
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 2 Not under consideration

    Enable the use of VPC Endpoint Interface URL for S3 bucket access when defining Cloud Container Storage Pool in Operations Ce

    When defining a cloud container storage pool, an option of 'Other' URL is given, and in the CLI a CLOUDUrl can be specified with a custom URL. Instructions say to use the region S3 endpoint URL. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-protect/8.1.11?...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

    TSM "server to server" replication

    NOTE: Collin Dawson is aware of this discussion.According to Collin this is a great Idea. Good for the EAP also.TSM "server to server" replication should prefereably be done in Policy domain rather than on Node Level. (node level now in plans)Is d...
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    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 ...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

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