IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Copy Data Management Support for IRIS 2020

    Dear IBMer/Catalogic, I hope everything is well. Urgent request. US Hospital requesting IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management to support EPIC IRIS 2020 on AIX asap. WSC has EPIC IRIS 2020 up and running ready for testing. Requesting Catalogic developm...
    over 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Future consideration

    version 7.1 32bit linux tsm client

    We have several 32 bit linux systems that have applications that prevent OS upgrades. As new security vulnerabilities are found and updated, we have caused the TSM client to stop working, luckily we were able to upgrade tsm to the 6.2.5.4 client c...
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

    ICO managed TSM activities

    Centralized management of TSM activities through TSM server instead of direct connection from ICO to the End-Point. This would enable TSM Server acting as automation tool for backup related activitites such as triggering of backups , snapshots, re...
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

    TSM backup client fails to restore directories that were "over quota" when the backup was performed

    Novell NSS file system (on a SLES based server) has a feature called "directory quota". It is possible to set such a quota on a directory, such that the quota is lower than the amount of data currently stored within the directory. TSM will backup ...
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

    exclude.dir option for ndmp backups

    excluding dir option for ndmp backups
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Timestamps for TDP Logs

    I would like to see a date and timestamp in the logs generated by TDP. Right now, the data about number of files backed up and such floods the logs and isn't very helpful when trying to determine the progress of a backup.
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Not under consideration

    ANS1115W with snapdiff option

    ANS1115W warning when excluded directoy are scanned with snapdiff method.
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

    Enhanced security for admin access to Protect

    Administrative access to Spectrum Protect (including but not limited to the WebUI) has a weak security model.
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Future consideration

    EXPORT NODE PROCESSING ENHANCEMENTS

    EXPORT NODE processing issues a FALSE success, when in fact invalid or non-existent FSID are specified in the EXPORT NODE command.
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Is a defect

    VM vmdk multithread process - Enable the per VM multithread (process multiple vmdk from within a single backup job)

    VM vmdk multithread process - Enable the per VM multithread (process multiple vmdk from within a single backup job)
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

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