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Public repo for TSM Linux Clients

Provide a public repo (repository) for the TSM Clients that can be used for automated synching for new versions of TSM Linux Clients.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

IBM SVC mkvdisk command line

Please make autoexpand the default for SpaceEfficient vdisk creation in the command line
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

IBM SVC lsuser enhancement

Please add the following data fields to the lsuser command: data/time last logged inip address from which the login occurred
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

ANR0157W Database operation FETCH for table Import. Groups failed with result code 4522

ACTION TAKEN: Hello TSM, according to DB2 information center: http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/db2luw/v9r7/topic/com.ibm.db2.luw.messages.sql.doc/doc/msql01224n.html The SQL1224 has various rc's (reason code). And we have rc = 3 for NUM_LOG_SPAN:...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

Ability for SVC node to boot directly into "service mode"

Ability to boot straight into "service mode" instead of having to boot into normal operational mode and then booting into service mode afterwards.This would apply to nodes that have suffered some type of unrecoverable fault that does not render th...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Validate HSM in Veritas software for cluster.

Validate HSM in Veritas software for cluster.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / HSM for Windows 2 Not under consideration

Ability to specify different retention policies for different drives

Ability for TSM for VE to specify different retention policies for different drives in a single VM.Same request as ID# 41739
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

TSM Server Import Node from Media requires option to start from tape sequence # other than 1.

System: TSM ServerActor: Bendigo Bank TSM Media Exports have been actively used to migrate from our TSM 5.5 environment running on Windows 2003 to TSM 6.4.x running on AIX 7.1 Description:I have a very long media import to a TSM v6.3.4.100 server ...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

V7000 controller upgrade utility

With the announcement of the new V7000 nodes there is no easy way to upgrade to a new controller. I have a customer that has had to turn of compression because they were exceeding the performance of the 1 CPU assigned for system usage. And there i...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

TFCM support for Solaris under cluster mode

In 2011, we sold Tivoli Flash Copy Manager(TFCM) as part of the SVC stretched cluster solution at PACI Kuwait. The project finally got implemented in the end of March 2014 except for the TFCM part. Host environment of the project involves three no...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration