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Request to run TSM Server on Solaris11

We want you to add Solaris11 as a supported platform for TSM Server.In FUJITSU business negotiations, there are many requests to runTSM Server on Solaris11. However, at present TSM server does not support Solaris11 as a supported platform. For thi...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

SVC Vdisk Default SCSI ID

When you create a new Vdisk and map it to a host the SCSI id 0 shoud not be open for mapping by default. Like the XIV, SCSI ID0 is reserved for boot from SAN and like the XIV iyou have to manually enable SCSI 0 to put a LUN on it. Please update th...
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 6 Not under consideration

backom with dedup_device

Hi, there is no dedup_device Support with backom (DP for ERP). Thus, there is currently no capability to add the dedup option to the DB2 command when using backom. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21627065 I think we Need this.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 2 Not under consideration

Solaris x86 TSM Client support beyond version 6.2.5

The latest version available of Solaris x86 TSM Client is 6.2.5To date, no plans have been announced to include the Solaris x86 version in future client releases. We are concerned that we will bw unable to backup a large number of x86 Solaris serv...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

TSM Online Indexreorg with temporary allocated filesystem

High end customers using TSM with SSD for DB directories and running 7x24 are very likely to run into the following situation: because SSD space is very expensive, it is not always possible to permanently attach hundreds of GBs to each TSM instanc...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TwoFactorAuthentication for OC

We would like to use two factor authentication with smart cards to log in to our Operations Center in order to enhance security
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Management IP address failover on eth port failure

IBM V7000 7.1.0.2Problem description:We have V7000 controller with configured eth1 port on both nodes. Also Service IP is configured on those ethernet ports.During the test we simulate ethernet port failure with disconnecting ethernet cable from c...
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for Oracle on AIX support for Oracle 19c multi-tenant databases

The request is for Spectrum Protect Snapshot support for Oracle 19c multitenant (pluggable) databases.
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Scale (ESS) request for SMI-S CIM Agent for 3rd party SRM monitoring support

Require an SMI-S CIM Agent to be developed for SCALE / ESS to allow 3rd party SRM tool discovery and support (NetApp OnCommand, SolarWinds....etc) for capacity and performance monitoring. It is understood that Spectrum Control can be used with the...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Need approved process to create new secondary for protocol cluster AFM-based DR

With AFM-based DR, I am familiar with the process for creating a new secondary when the original secondary is lost (mmafmctl <filesystem> changeSecondary). What is the process for creating a new secondary when mmcesdr is being used to manage...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

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