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Want TSM TDP for SQL client to exclude offline SQL DBs from backups and log a message about the same in the log file.

Want TSM TDP for SQL client to exclude offline SQL DBs from backups and log a message about the same in the log file. Currently what happens is whenver TDP SQL backup encounter an offline SQL DB backup get failed for DB and return code for the bac...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

Increase the number of maximum concurrent open SSH sessions per system

Increase the number of maximum oncurrent open SSH sessions per system, to larger values, say 64. The current limit is 32. Reference:http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssg1S1005424
almost 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Concurrent upgrades for Spectrum Scale Protocol Nodes

Currently, upgrades to Spectrum Scale are disruptive, documented to be 20 minutes per node. The stated reason is that SMB versions cannot co-exist, however, it is likely that not all upgrades introduce a new version of SMB.
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 7 Not under consideration

Protocol replication needs the ability to failover individual filesets for DR testing

Protocol replication has “all-or-nothing” failover/failback process. Cannot test DR for new exports. We need the ability to failover individual filesets for DR testing With “AFM-based DR” (which the protocols cluster DR is based on), and indeed fo...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

AUDIT VOLUME command enhancement

One of the features of the current AUDIT VOLUME command is that while an audit process is active, clients cannot restore data from the specified volume or store new data to that volume. This can be a significant issue for audit volume processes th...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Add path status in Overview Screen Page

In IBM Copy Service Manager It's possible add path status in Overview Screen Page?? We monitoring Overview page for potential issues of session, server connection, but we don't see path status, that is visible only in a specific screen
almost 9 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

RFE to allow exclusion of files and folders from a VE backup

When doing VM backup using TSM4VE, is there any way to exclude swap and C:\temp from the backup? They take up considerable space and resources even if everything gets deduplicated out eventually. Type Amount inspected [GB] Amount backed up [GB]VM ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

TDMF Message for SOFT FENCE

System: TDMF for z/OS Actor: User needing change in a message. TDMF (Transparent Data Migration Facility) is a product that allows the customer to non-disruptively relocate or migrate data within the data center, in periods of full production and ...
almost 9 years ago in TDMF z/OS 3 Planned for future release

IBM SVC- request ability in V7.x GUI to create multi-volume (plus symbol) capability like in pre-V7.x GUI.

Pre-V7.x GUI, when creating New Volume there existed an ability to enter a (Volume Name, Size, # of Volumes) and ability to click on (plus symbol) to add new line for entering additional New Volumes. Appears that starting in V7.1.0.x GUI, that whe...
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

Mirrored volume Sync column added in Volume view of GUI

Allow the sync value of volume copies to be displayed in the volume view of the Storwize GUI. This information is available from the CLI command (lsvdiskcopy). Requesting to add this visibility from the GUI.
almost 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration