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GUI difference for creating. Readability degraded

When creating a new Remote copy relationship with consistency groups. We see a difference in the GUI how LUNs are listed.In v6.2.0.5 full names are displayed while in v6.3.0.4 the names are truncated making it not easy to read. Only on mouse-over ...
about 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

increase the number of Host Connections to more than 1024 per SVC IO Group

Increase the number of Host Connections to more than 256 per IO Group and 1024 per cluster
about 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

Active directory integration with Tivoli Storage Manager 7.1 to pick existing users

We are looking to enable LDAP Active directory authentication for our Tivoli storage manager applications. But even we integrate TSM with active directory it doesnt picks up the existing users from our active directory organisational unit for auth...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Ability to non-disruptively expand SVC source Vdisks that are part of a GM copy set such that the target Vdisks also expand

Currently, with IBM SAN arrays, when volumes are part of a Global Mirror (GM) session, we need to cancel GM, expand the source volume, expand the target volume, then restart GM. We would like this to be fully automated and non-disruptive. This wou...
about 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Spectrum Virtualise Transparent Cloud Tiering support for MS Azure

We have a clear opportunity to sell a client a pair of IBM FS9150s but the client would like TCT support for Azure to be on the Spectrum Virtualise roadmap
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Support for SAP HANA differential backups in TDP for ERP

SAP have announced support for incremental backup capabilities in SPS10 for HANA. See link: https://blogs.saphana.com/2015/06/16/new-sap-hana-sps10/ "..........SAP HANA SPS 10 introduces several key high availability and disaster recovery enhancem...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 0 Delivered

We need two user LAN ports on a DS8000 HMC

BTMU, Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ, wants to have two user LAN ports on a HMC of DS8000.
about 9 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Delivered

Being able to use other IDs besides SYSTEM ID for HANA Backup Setup

IBM Support/SME confirmed that user ID that is used for the setup.sh needs to be SYSTEM ID as per the documentation provided.This RFE is for our developers to allow other users IDs with the required privileges to be able to run the setup.sh for SA...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

List of new/changed server (ANR) messages in TSM V7.x

In previous version there was documentation on new/changed messages e.g.Version 6.3.4 ANR new and changed messages this is not available in version 7. please re-instate this documentation
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

backup object manager ( backom ) reads both db2 archive logs when logs being restored

When backing up db2 archive logs using the Tivoli data protector for erp and saving multiple copies of the logs to tsm the behaviour of the tdp is as follows when trying restore the logs.It uses the logmethod to interrogate the backups and when th...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Delivered