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Storage Protect Family

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PMR 37047,999,760

System: Spectrum ProtectActor: Keep every files/directories "Updated date/time" correct Spectrum Protect backups and restore user's files and directories. When restoring files and directories "updated date/time" information in metadata set to "bac...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 0 Not under consideration

TSM for VE add information to better estimate meta data size

The current existing information in version 6.4 given by the command 'dsmc query VM <vmname> -detail' gives some details about the VM guest backups like : number of objects making up the backup, fragmentation, etc. but there is no easy way t...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

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 ...
almost 8 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...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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) ...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack 2 Not under consideration

Support Request-Spectrum Protect with SteelFusion

We would like IBM to look at Spectrum Protect and a product called SteelFusion working together as a supported configuration for CBI (Chicago Bridge & Iron)
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Wildcard Support for VMFolder option in TSM4VE

We have different retention requirement for VM backup. so I was wondering if wild card is supported than we would not have to modified OPT file every time we add new customer..
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

TSM for Databases clients not restorable from backupsets

Currently if you use TSM for Databases to backup your databases you can't use backupsets because the restoring of the data doesn't work. Currently if you want to have a database backup included in a backupset you need to create a separate dump fro...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

TSM deduplicated data in an offsite copy storage pool

Customer Lyle Fast wants to request a change to the way TSM works regarding deduplicated data in an offsite copy storage pool. TSM recommends that offsite storage pools have a fully hydrated copy local and any offsite copies are non-deduplicated. ...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

INCLUDE INACTIVATION DATE IN QUERY BACKUP

Include a new column showing the inactivation date of inactive objects in the output of dsmc query backup. i.e. dsmc q ba -ina -subdir=yes -showinactivationdate /mydir/* Also, it would be vastly simplify parsing if the dsmc client could do tab del...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

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