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StorWize v7000 Cascading Remote Copy Operations

Storewize v7000 Remote Copy target volume to be used as a remote copy source volume on a second remote copy. I believe this is referred to as cascading remote copy operations. This will enable v7000 volumes to be copied to multiple SANs to facilit...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Allow multiple object delete from TSM for mail command line

There needs to be a way to delete multiple TDP objects via command line, from a single TSM scan -- for multiple databases With the current process to delete multiple stale backups requires a single command line to be issued, which scans for each o...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack for Microsoft Exchange 4 Delivered

Be able to change retention for individual VM guests being backed up with TSM VE

If a customer wants to change the retention time for individual VM guest backups, the customer has to change it for all vm guests that are associated with the Data Mover node. Because TSM VE stores the individual guests as file spaces under the da...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Delivered

Implementing a search vm dialog in the TSM4VE plugin/web gui

Implementing a dialogue for searching a specific vm in the plugin/web gui like inside the TSM B/A client.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Delivered

Multiple DSMSERV can start using the SAME ID

Enhance TSM Server code v7.x to recognize and prevent the task dsmserv to start multiple times under the same user ID. To prevent downtime caused by accidentally starting second instance using same ID. Current Activity if second instance is starte...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

FCM4Unix: Oracle ASM "asm_diskstring" to be used is not documented

The FCM4Unix documentation does not state that FCM requires the usage of asm_diskstring=ORCL:* while adding ASMlib Disks to disk groups and during disk discovery. If ORCL:* is not used or the asm_diskstring contains other filters ASMlib disks migh...
almost 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Delivered

Operations Center exclude nodes from at risk-policy alerting

Request ability to exclude "stale" nodes no longer performing any scheduled operations from appearing as "at risk-policy" in TSM OC 6.4.1.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Delivered

No errors report for schedules with a status of SEVERED

When a scheduled backup gets a "session severed" error (brecause of a comms failure/client OS problem/client reboots/loss of power at client site) the schedule is updated with a status of severed.No backup failure messages are generated on the TSM...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

DOMAIN option to use with selective backup and archive

The TSM client option "DOMAIN" should be applicable for Selective backup and Archives.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Delivered

Addition of DURATION=mmm parameter to BACKUP STGPOOL command

On several occations my TSM customers have been short on scratch tapes for a long period, building up a huge backlog of data that should be backed up up to a copy storage pool. When the scratch shortage is over, the daily scripts never finishes, s...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

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