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Implement Target Port NPIV

Target Port NPIV would allow a Storage Engineer to put multiple physical WWN's and assign a virtual WWN that would in turn get zoned to hosts. This would simplify the amount of paths a host has to manage and make the storage system more resilient ...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

TSM for DB support for Oracle 12c on AIX 7.1

Customer is upgrading Oracle to version 12c on AIX 7.1 64 bit. They use RMAN and TSM for DB to back up Oracle. They require support for this combination, which isn't in TSM for DB 7.1 per the support page.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Delivered

SVC Logon Limit

It is a requirement that user accounts are locked after 5x failed logon attempts
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

V7000 Logon Limit

It is a requirement that user accounts are locked after 5x failed logon attempts
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

FCM4Unix: Oracle ASM on Linux - ASM Disks on Disk Partitions

FCM should support ASM Disks on disk partitions. The Preinstallation Checklist states "For Oracle ASM diskgroups are created on entire disks. (Setups on disk partitions are not supported.)" FCM will not work with ASM Disks on disk partitons (other...
almost 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Delivered

TSM summary table should provide accurate info on backup status, regardless of the used scheduler within the environment

The SUCCESSFUL field in the SUMMARY table is not a valid representation of the "success" or "failure" of Backup-Archive Client operations. Rather, it maps to the "Normal server termination" field in the TSM server accounting records.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Highlight failed mounts/unmounts

On the gui frontpage, there is a list of mounts/unmounts in black color. Failed mounts are in grey. Why are they hidden away? They should be highlighted instead. Or maybe use a different color scheme. Maybe light green for ok and some red for errors.
over 3 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 3 Delivered

Single GUI to manage multiple Storwize V3700 Storage Controllers

Multiple Storwize V3700 Storage Controllers require multiple GUI browsers to manage each controller separately. This is not user friendly and there is no means to get the status of all Storage Controllers on a single browser. Dell provides this ab...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Disk encryption capabilities with SVC

Please provide disk encryption capabilities when using SVC and the backed disk controllers do not have encryption capabilities
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Windows 2012 R2 support

Hi. We need to be able to backup Microsoft Windows 2012 R2 clients. Please provide a TSM BA-client that supports this as our customers are asking for it now.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Delivered

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