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FCM4UNIX: multiple occurrences of DATABASE_BACKUP_INCREMENTEL_LEVEL incl. USE_AT clause in FCM profile required

Hi Tivoli :-) For incremental level Oracle (native) backups the DATABASE_BACKUP_INCREMENTAL_LEVEL statement must be usable multiple times like the INCREMENTAL_LEVEL statement for SAP/Oracle backups: INCREMENTAL_LEVELThis parameter is only for use ...
almost 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

TSM System State incremental backups

If technically possible, please consider adding additional incremental forever capability to system state backups. Currently it is my understanding that only objects included with the system writer are able to use a an incremental strategy. Object...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Dilligent tsm integration

Hi, i think it would be very nice to have a better dilligent tsm integration. It should be very nice to have client side deduplication with dilligent as primary stgp pools.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Include ulimit requirements to TSM init script

During reboot of linux systems, init scripts inherits kernel default settings for open files (ulimit -n).    These will be too small, and give warnings in tsm actlog.    The init script does not read values from sysctl or limit...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Is a defect

sort order of query occupancy command

With version 6 of TSM server the sorting order of "query occupancy"has changed from "fsid" to "alphabetical order". Why? The sorting order of commands "query filespace" (sorted by fsid)and "query ocupancy" should be the same. My opinion: This is a...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

SVC to support native 6 and 8 HBA configurations

I have many future installations needing to have SVC nativity to support 6 and 8 HBA configurations without needing to create multiple Host entries for the same host. Today if i assign HBA to Node 1 port 1, HBA 2 node 2 Port2, HBA 3 Node1 Port 3.....
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

Make the time interval for "ANR3654W Inventory file expiration processing did not run in the previous 24 hours" configurable

The message ANR3654W is shown even if an expire inventory schedule was executed every day at 4pm, because the detailed time frame including seconds is checked for the message. The request is either check not on detailed second (maybe a minute or 5...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

make CANCEL REPL end the replication process under any and all circumstances

delev245 = repltargetdelev245 is not responsible, but running. Ping server delev245 also hangs this situationwas caused by an unresponsive target linux host. ALL replsource servers have to be restarted. How to recover from a hanging "Cancelling re...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Request for Infiniband Support on SAN Volume Controller nodes

FlashSystems technical sales manager Subhash Vanga (svanga@us.ibm.com) has notified me that there is a pressing need for IBM support on SVC where it is being sold with FlashSystems. "it kind of becomes important with Flash virtualized behind it..A...
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

FCM: VMware - Additional Question for Security Reasons

In case of restore a VM to its original location, the Plugin asks to overwrite it. This is great. We would like to see another additional question, if the VM still is running. E.g. "The VM you want to restore is still running. Do you really want t...
about 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration