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New option to exclude compressed files from compression

When using client compression there are files that are already compressed that will (probably) grow in size.There is the ability to exclude files from compression processing with the exclude.compression option. However this requires a separate lin...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 6 Delivered

NFS 4.1 Support

Update to support NFS 4.1
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale System 2 Delivered

Storwize - Increased information on lsrcrelationship

During DR testing and other tasks we are often asked to manipulate remote relationships to either failover or stop as a backout point. At present when we do this work the lsrcrelationship command only provides the status of idling when the replica...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

move data from one bucket to a new one

the custmer has created a new bucket with ecryption and he migrated DATA from the no encyption bucket to this new one , but on the TSM server ,we couldn't update the bucket name on the container stprage pool, we even couldn't migrate the data from...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

Allow Admins to run lshardware, lsservicestatus, and lsportstats commands

At Citi they valut the superuser password and can only check it out of vault with a change record or trouble ticket. Having the ability to have storage admins run the above commands will simplify reporting and troubleshooting. They need to be able...
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Add ability to display remote mounts

Today there is no possibility for clients to identify mounts that are internally handled as remote mounts (access to a peer cluster's cache). This avoids the client to identify jobs that might hang due to a problem on the remote cluster and to swa...
over 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Delivered

VTS: Beacon Ficon link amber when not fully ready

Enhancement Request for « VTS MI - Ficon status view »Enhancement request is for having the « check box » put in amber color when the information from remote node are empty or basically adding a comment like « al...
over 6 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Delivered

Using TDP under Windows with alternate dsm.opt (this was possible in the past)

We need to use TDP under Windows with alternate dsm.opt
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 3 Delivered

qtree support with snapdiff with Spectrum protect

Customer data is on qtrees on NetApp. They are using NDMP And would like to move to Snapdiff. Most of their data is in qtrees and qtrees seems to be not supported with Snapdiff backup.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Delivered

TDP for Domino on Linux x86 & x86_64

Tivoli Data Protection for Domino does not support Linux on x86 & x86_64 systems after 5.5.3 while Domino supports this platform. When will this platform become supported again for current versions of Tivoli Data Protection?
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 4 Delivered

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