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    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

    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...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 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 ...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Generate Backupset enhancements

    We use the Generate Backupset option for long term offsite storage. With this we use Nodegroups to capture depending on how long a set should be kept for. What would be nice is if: A) reporting was a little more accurate...when a set runs I'll hav...
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Change of IBM Spectrum Control Common User after installation

    We would like to have the functionality to change Spectrum Control Common User after the software is installed and running for several years.
    almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

    Change of compression method in TSM Client API

    Background:The backup takes too long time (did not complete within backup window).The restore and recovery takes too long time. They investigated if compression of the SQL Server data can help to fulfill the backup and restore time, and figured ou...
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 5 Not under consideration

    Admin API

    Please document and open the admin api to the server. There seems to be an API which is used eg. by Tivoli Integrated Portal as I can see XML in tcpdumps. Maybe you still use something like SOAP. So providing an WSDL and/or Interfaces to .NET and ...
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Database Report

    the SPP does not have a specific report for databases with the total consumed separately from the VMs
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Senior Technical Specialist

    Add another Security Role.The Role is the same as Monitor with the added function of "Download Support Package".
    over 9 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Global Mirror with SEV target disks

    SVC should "reset" the volume space to the specified real capacity when a volume is used as a target volume in a GM relationship, like SVC is doing this for flash copy: when you Flash Copy data to a SEV target disk SVC "resets" the target disk, so...
    over 14 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

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