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Spectrum Protect Cloud container Pool - Hybrid Pools

Store active copies of data in the disk "cache" or have control when data is moved to the cloud
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Delivered

Lockheed Martin - SVC GM

Currently you can navigate in the GUI to Copy Services à FlashCopy Mappings and see the live status and % complete for all FlashCopies in your system. There is nothing like this for Global Mirror Mappings. You can look under Running Tasks but that...
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Tivoli Storage Manager Mac client support for macOS 10.12 (Sierra)

Add support for macOS 10.12 (Sierra) to the TSM Mac client.
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Delivered

TS7700 Allow customer to generate duplicate copies of Copy Export tape

There are two asks with this request:(1) Customer would like the capability to generate duplicate CopyExport tapes. In a recent DR test event, customer discovered one of the Copy Export tapes was missing. As a result, they had to reschedule the "e...
over 8 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Delivered

V7K - Failure of command to unmap or delete a LUN identified with I/O (sys4736)

The V7K should be able to prohibit a LUN from being unmapped or deleted should there be any I/O. Although, there still could be a need to remove a LUN from a clustered server group (removing a server from the cluster). We would like the option to ...
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

VADP: Possibility to cleanup created VMware snapshots

Affected products/clients by this RFE:TSM B/A ClientTSM for VEFlashCopy Manager (for VMware) Our clients which work with the VADP are able to create and remove VMware-snapshots, but in case of a failed schedule for the allover environment, our cli...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Delivered

Support for MS SQL 2016

We are starting to use MS SQL 2016.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Delivered

Add description fields to GUI and CLI to store information about host and LUN

It would be nice to have description fields in the GUI (and CLI as well) where you can place some kind of logical information about a host and LUN. It maybe different at customer sites, but as all Servicelines within SSO have their specialism, we ...
about 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Support Database volumes on NFS

Even though using NFS is supported by DB2, it is not supported nor recommended for TSM. The following show the supported devices for DB2https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21470193 The following shows TSM's supporthttps://www-304.ib...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Delivered

pre-format setting of storwize volumes

Add the possibility to specify pre-format option for storwize volumes (vdisks). In storwize 7.6.x the default is to pre-format every volume which is not needed in all the cases.We are mostly working with IBM i systems attached to storwize systems ...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

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