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Abort of STGRule ActionType=Copy if no MountPoint is available

Starting a Storage Rule with ActionType COPY and no Tape MountPoints are available the transaction is aborted by the server.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

installation image for physical vSnap servers

IBM provides vsnap server OVAs für virtualized vsnap servers.In some customer situations it would be helpful to have also a fully supported installation image for physical vsnap servers including update images.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

"Cancel Process all" command in Spectrum protect

Would be great if "cancel process all" command in TSM/Spectrum Protect is introduced.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

TSM4VE UI Support for mulitple Spectrum Protect server instances

the current TSM4VE Web UI or plugin does not support the distribution of VM backup data of 1 datacenter to multiple Spectrum Protect instances. Nowadays VM datacenters have reached sizes which require to have more than 1 Spectrum Protect instance ...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

NFS V4.1 Support

Need support for NVS V4.1
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

TDP for Database SQL

ISP Server V8.1.11ISP Client V8.1.9TDP for Database SQL 8.1.9 AlwaysOn DB configured on TDP for Database SQL with11 Instance (Active/Inactive) containing more than 70 SQL Database using MMC. Problem:When doing selective Restore (Active and Inactiv...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

FlashSystem NAS

Japanese VAD. I am afraid this is a simple question.Why is it that only IBM does not have a NAS that can be bought for about 1 to 2 million yen?FlashSystem's FCM is excellent as block storage.However, we are often told by our Japanese customers.In...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Increase number of extents per cluster

Currently a system with extent size of 1 GiB does only support a managed capacity of 4 PiB. We need more scalability without using a larger extent size, e.g. managed capacity of 8 PiB with an extent size of 1 GiB.
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Possibility for monthly and annual Archiving to TSM Tape

When configuring additional copies with offload on TSM, you can only use container pools for storage, but container pools cannot be migrated to tape. Since we only use all-flash SAN storage, this is a very costly solution. For our customer, we nee...
2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

Show various command line options and/or help options for dsmserv using -h or --help flag

The proposal is provide -h or --help option for storage protect server command line. Storage Protect Server can be started with various options. Currently the user has to go through SP documentation to know these options, as the command line does ...
6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration