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Build 3390 with a track size 64K or larger.

Currently 3390 has a track size around 54Kb. It would be great to have a track 64Kb to write larger records in VSAM. We have a need in our Medical Record System stores several procedure codes and we are always running out of space in the record. I...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Use seperate TCP port for node replication - preferably only communication initiated from the source server

When using node replication, it should be possible to specify a seperate TCP port, that can be used for node replication (and the dsmadmc command line should not be able to communicate on this port).From a network security perspective, it is not a...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

possibility to influence SVC quorum promotion

We would like to have the possibility to influence on which site the disc quorum will be promoted to active, once all IP quorum are not eligible quorum anymore.
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Not under consideration

Change QUERY ACTLOG output to match terminal window width

I'm not sure if this RFE applies to the server or dsmadmc client, but the request is to change the behavior of the QUERY ACTLOG command output to stretch (and wrap if necessary) to the current width of the terminal window where it is running.Other...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Publish TSM client software via yum repository

Currently, it's possible to download the latest client-related TSM software packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS at ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/patches/client/v7r1/Linux/LinuxX86/BA/ It would be even better i...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 1 Not under consideration

Incremental Restore

It would be useful if TSM for VE provided "incremental restore" functionality, using the Change Block Tracking feature, so as to perform a restore of a VM by only restoring data which has changed since a specific point in time.This is possible wit...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

DS8000 equipps IP port for PPRC link use

DS8000 PPRC links are configured via FC ports. When the distance is over 100km, FCIP converters are used for WAN connection. My customer who manages system z server and storage environments hope to use IP ports for PPRC links because he wants to d...
almost 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Renaming MDF & LDF files during restore

Hello, The renaming of source MDF and LDF files for MSSQL DB during restore operation is basic functionality of any backup/restore software. It provides effective way how to store and structuralize files of DB. Since restored DB is usually new DB ...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Drive preference in a mixed-media library sharing environment

TSM supports multiple media types in a single library definition. It handles these through media type information reported by the physical library,combined with the drive read and write format lists provided by the drives. Unfortunately, in this c...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Connect TS7700 to an AWS S3 bucket with an IAM Role

Our customer wants to be able to connect their TS7700 to an AWS S3 Bucket using an IAM Role without the need of the access key and the secret key.
10 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Not under consideration

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