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exclude.vmdisk into client option set (cloptset)

Currently, the exclude.vmdisk cannot be set centrally on the TSM server by using the cloptset.So if you have multiple data movers, you have to set it locally on each data movers.Currently, we are managing between 500 - 600 VMs, spawn on 4 virtual ...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Lack of integration with IBM Spectrum Protect

Lack of an integration between IBM Spectrum Protect (SP) and IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management (CDM) using Pure Storage. Lack of this functionality is a major road block to deploy/adoption a supported combination of Pure, CDM and SP solution.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

support for chown/chgrp via API + policy engine

Add API calls for the purpose of changing file/directory ownership. This could also then be exposed in the policy engine.
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Add support for EMC NVB using NDMP

Add support for EMC NVB to speed up NDMP Backups of EMC filer file systems
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Tool to reset damaged files without "audit volume"

Sometimes there is some error condition while the TSM server is reading a tape (tape failure, drive failure, network failure, other). In many of these cases, the TSM server marks the files it could not read as "damaged". The standard way of making...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Add Wait parameter to AUDIT VOLUME command

Add parameter WAIT to the AUDIT VOLUME command. If set to YES, the AUDIT VOLUME would wait until the process is finished before continuing with the next command or next line in the script.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM - events tabel sql queries prb

Info from support:I've discussed the issue with our developers, and the symptom you see is caused by staging tables we are using to fulfill the SQL requests. I tried to confirm a perfoamnce APAR with them and I could open one if you insist, howeve...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Support for Linux on IBM z Systems

Support for Linux on IBM z Systems is needed for DB2 ACS invoking IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot - formerly IBMTivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager.
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Not under consideration

SVC RSA/IMM

Customer would like to monitor the hardware failures, like power cable cut situation, similar to other xSystem server via RSA/IMM interface.In pmr it was stated, that this feature was not tested and that way it is not supported. Implementing that ...
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Storage Insights to retrieve Timezone from DS8 HMC configuration and not from DS8 internal OS

We have found during a problem ticket TS001724631 we had raised to SI support that SI is pulling the timezone for a DS888X system from the internal OS running on the array, and not from what is configured in the HMCs as it should be. Please update...
over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration