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    TSM Fastback Server has extremely slow read operations from disk

    TSM Fastback Server has extremely slow read operations from disk:- all restore operations with both methods, Fastback Mount and Fastback BMR,- DR to TSM and- long term proxy backups to TSM.The speed of restore does not exceed 10Mbit/s (aggregate) ...
    about 15 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack 4 Not under consideration

    FCM: Unix/Linux: Support for csh Shell

    Currently FCM supports ksh and bash as Unix/Linux shell. Some customers standardized the csh shell in their environment due to SAP history. Unfortunately some scripts which perform recovery on the clone system (during FCM cloning) fail if the data...
    about 15 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

    Improvements needed for planfile scripts for Tivoli Storage Manager

    The process of building a server, extracting and using the DRM planfile scripts, and recovering the TSM server is convoluted and difficult, especially when you are in a time-critical recovery test or event. These procedures should be re-created as...
    about 15 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Tivoli Monitoring for TSM

    We have ITM6 monitoring agent for TSM installed on TSM server to test TSM monitoring scenario but agent have not much features as per the customer requirements, and we need help to get those features, view with this agent. I had open PMR 13425, L6...
    about 15 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

    Eliminate the possibility of unintentionally deleting data (SYS4039)

    Eliminate the possibility of unintentionally deleting data
    about 15 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 5 Not under consideration

    TSM Scheduler Update (SYS4331)

    The Best Practice for TSM server environments is to include Full backups on a periodic basis. With the efficiency of the incremental Forever strategy of TSM, there comes a side effect that can become a road block to achieving a timely RTO. This is...
    about 15 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    GPFS supports the requirement for Ubuntu 24 with a higher kernel version of 6.14.0.

    Ubuntu 24 has released a higher kernel version, 6.14.0, in the community. For certain reasons, such as supporting AI workloads with specific GPUs, some GPU clients may have kernel versions significantly higher than those supported by the GPFS oper...
    about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Submitted

    [Copy] Support TDP for MSSQl running on Linux

    MS is now supporting MS-SQL running on Linux. It would be nice to do a backup of that too.
    3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Planned for future release

    [Copy] The Tiny PC TSSC/IMC in the library and TS7700 should have a separate FRU for the HDD, instead of replacing the whole system.

    When this was initially considered many years ago, HDD failure was very uncommon, but now it's extremely common.
    5 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Not under consideration

    Authentication improvements

    The rest api is currently not consistent with the eeadm cli. This makes it difficult to automate things that rely on information the cli can output but the rest api doesn't. A few examples: 1. tasks https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-archive-ee/1...
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Future consideration

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