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Spectrum Virtualize/Storwize /Flash need more notification options

The Spectrum Virtualize code (and related systems) allow email addresses to have combinations of notification emails sent (inventory, info, warning, and error). At least as of FlashSystems version 1.5.1.2, a new restriction is being enforced. Atte...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

report if backup was deduped by client

If the client de-duplication has been enabled for a given node, but the estimated size is bigger than:tsm: TSMWAR01>q opt *deduptx* Server Option Option Setting------------------------- -----------------------------------ClientDedupTxnLimit 1,0...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement to the new node 'decommission' command

TSM 7.1.3 introduces a new command called 'decommission node' Can this be enhanced to have a date option to specify a future date other than the default retention policy? Example: "decommission node xxxx date=12/31/2015 ...."
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Support Debian 9 with ISS 4 and 5

Support Spectrum Scale on Debian 8 and later for ISS 4.2.3 and 5.0.0 and later.
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Request Compatiblity Between TSM Ver 7, Rel 1, Level 0.100 and Ver 5, Rel 5, Level 7.0 with Oracle Linux Server release 6.9

System: Storage Management Server for AIX - Version 7, Release 1, Level 0.100 and Storage Management Server for AIX-RS/6000 - Version 5, Release 5, Level 7.0.Actor: VALE Request: Vale is implementing an Oracle Cloud Migration Project in Oracle EXA...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Add more than 2 site support in SRA/SRM (VMware Site Recovery Manager for SVC

VMware SRM (Site Recovery Manager) interacts with SVC SRA (Site Recovery Adapter) for Site-A to Site-B using Metro Mirror. When adding another Metro Mirror relationship Site-A to Site-C (for a complete different purpose on different LUN). The prev...
about 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Change of IBM Spectrum Control Common User after installation

We would like to have the functionality to change Spectrum Control Common User after the software is installed and running for several years.
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

Hide filenames for TSM administrators

When a client requests to encrypt files in a backup, filenames and directories are available in clear text in the database, fully accessible by administrators. Secret information may be revealed. This is a major show stopper for MSPs and CSPs in t...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Visibility to volume and LSS use of space for ESE volume

We are just starting to implement thinly provisioned ESE volumes and have identified some deficiencies in the lack of granularity in the visibility to the amount of space utilized. We do have a way to look at the space used from z/OS we don't have...
about 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

We want TSM for VE client skip backup of all other VM's on that data-store once the backup job has detected the out-of-space

Statefarm is using TSM for VE (Data Mover Node) to back up virtual desktop from Citrix/VMware Infrastructure. When Data Store run out of space for any reason, backup of vm fails but TSM for VE client keep trying to backup next VM in same data stor...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration