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This applies to Spectrum CDM: Full Copy

By default backup jobs create the first copy as a full copy on thin volumes. Being a full copy, the 80% threshold set as a warning value is always exceeded, generating emails and alarm events. Is it possible to set by default the value to 0 (disab...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Force Cancel Sessions and Processes

We need to be able to force cancel sessions and processes on the TSM server. This is a must have.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

SPP support for Bare Metal Recovery (OS Image) for Windows and Linux

SPP support for Bare Metal Recovery (OS Image) for Windows and Linux.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

DS8000 ScG backup volume runs out of Virtual Capacity

When a SG backup volume runs out of Virtual Capacity, have the DS8K automatically increase the Virtual Capacity Multiplier with 1 for that volume.The increase by 1 should be sufficient I think, I do not think this should be configurable. However, ...
over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 3 Not under consideration

Allow remote mount for fileset in different paths on the remote cluster to mou

With the new functionality of remote mount controlled by fileset, it gives the opportunity to grant or deny access to different filesets within the same file system. Although the functionality is deployed on the owning cluster, at the remote clust...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

TSM4VE lack support for multiple vCenters, in an intuitive, easy and manageable way.

TSM4VE seems to lack support for multiple vCenters, in an intuitive, easy and manageable way. Competitive software, like Quest (formerly VizionCore) vRanger Pro and Veeam Backup & Replication does have stated support for multiple vCenters. It ...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 8 Not under consideration

Scale Storage template for Satellite

Add supported storage template for Spectrum Scale and IBM Storage Scale System (former ESS) in IBM Cloud Satellite. There is a existing CSI https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-scale-csi . This would simplify management & maintenance for custo...
12 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Not under consideration

Additional parameter for repairvdiskcopy

Additional parameter "-stoplba lba" for "repairvdiskcopy" command needed: -stoplba lba(Optional) Specifies the last logical block address (LBA) on which to finish the command. The LBA must be specified in hex, with a 0x prefix.
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect (TSM) client for Space Management (HSM) for ppc (power) Linux

With the evolution of Spectrum Scale (esp. ESS) running on our ppc Hardware on Linux it is required to have this capability to reduce the number of objects to manage (i.e. an extra AIX or x86 system to handle the HSM migration out of ESS or other ...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Not under consideration

Verify Management Class Contraints on Node Migration

When moving/migrating a TSM node from one TSM domain to another, and in the target TSM domain the management class used in the source does not exist in its policiy definitions, the default management class is used. The fall back to the default man...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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