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TSM DB backups via HW snapshot

Enable backups of TSM's own internal DB by using hardware's snapshot ability in a way that updates archive logs appropriately, just as if a "real" DB backup was done.
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

VMware Backup Support for Vapps using Vstorage API & Exclude Raw Device Mapping Disk

The DSMC client using the "Backup VM" command fails to see and backup any virtual machines on a ESXi v4.1 server. This is somewhat critical for a Enterprise environment where we use Vapps to manage our servers! The Vstorage API shrinks the backup ...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Delivered

Add DEDUP_DEVICE option to DB2 (Offload) backup to TSM

The Offlload backup of a snapshot to TSM doesn't support the DB2 Backup command option of DEDUP_DEVICE, which optimises de-duplication of the backup images and significantly reduces backup storage.
over 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 4 Delivered

DS8886 should allow query of FICON/FCP connectivity

We have a large number of IBM DS8886's in our environment and frequently have connectivity issues for our FICON and FCP ports. Unfortunately, we do not have any visibility within the DS8886 to the connection (if any) at the other end of the cable....
almost 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Delivered

FlashCopy Manager should support also NetApp for Flash copies under Unix

The FlashCopy Manager supports currently only the IBM subsystems DS8000, SVC, V7000 and XIV. Many customers are using NetApp storage because of their comprehensive snapshot and replication functionality. These customers want to use TSM as the Unif...
over 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 5 Delivered

Storwize - Increase to host mapping limit

The limit of host mappings of 20000 in the past had been sufficient when the number of hbas per host allowed was 512. Since this was downgraded in 7.5 this has meant our large clusters had a large increase in the number of host mappings required. ...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

TLS/SSL Server Supports The Use of Static Key Ciphers

To support the use of ciphers with DHE/ECDHE, and to have the options to edit the ciphersuite available. Perfect foward secrecy.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

AIX mmdumpkthreads

mmdumptkreads currently uses kdb to dump the process stack, it would be more efficient to run a ps and execute procstack for each process.
about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Improve reporting for host objects in Spectrum Virtualize

It is currently very difficult to find out what IO groups and pools a given host uses on Spectrum Virtualize products
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Limitation on DS8880

IBM team, I need to see if I can request an enhancement for the DS8880. As you know, we have the Atos North American Mainframe Hub (NAMH). We ran into an issue that I have PMR 59316,227,000 opened for an issue that we are having for our client 7-1...
over 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Delivered

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