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TSM for VE in AWS

Ability to run TSM for VE in AWS
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Delivered

Want new option on command OTCNTL to transfer ownership from a specific volume

My customer wants to transfer the ownership of specific logical Volume using z/OS Host Command Line. The OTCNTL command doesn't provide an option to do it. TS7700 z/OS Host Command Line RequestOTCNTL command provides a method to transfer the owner...
almost 8 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Delivered

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
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Delivered

Raise number of supported concurrent open SSH sessions

According SVC restrictions of the current SVC code v6.4 the maximum number of concurrent open SSH sessions is 10. Can you raise this number to minimum the double value ?
almost 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

LTO 6 Full Height drive support.

Currently TSM only supports LTO 6 Half Height drives. Need to support LTO 6 Full height drives, as a client has them in their tape library.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

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

Add support for macOS 10.12 (Sierra) to the TSM Mac client.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 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...
about 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 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...
about 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

How to stop Hyper-V from using the 'Data ONTAP VSS Hardware Provider' to run VM snapshots.

We have backup server with windows 2012r2 and we install IBM SPECTRUM PROTECT SERVER 8.1.6 we have hyper-v 2012 r2 with 12 hosts with cluster , we install ibm spectrum protect for hyper-v 8.1.6 the backup work with 'Data ONTAP VSS Hardware Provide...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Delivered

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