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Improve the DRP extraction

DR plan scripts is based on the assumption that TSM is recovered to the original TSM server system where the group, the user who owns the instance, the directories and the instance already exist.I think it is good to add commands to check if the g...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Add ability to query virtual disk size at the point of backup from SP client

APAR IT22561 addresses an issue which causes a failed restore of an individual virtual disk to report success, but there are deeper underlying problems here. As per the APAR text, to recover an individual virtual disk virtual disk once it has been...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Reliability option for when suspension of disk occurs on disk outages

IBM: Currently when allocating disk space, gpfs only consider the disk status(ready,suspended/to-be-emptied, emptied, replacing, replacement) but not "availability"(up, down, recovering, unrecovered). for "availability", it will impact whether GPF...
about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

TSM BA Client support for file backup of data on CSV Volumes on MS Failover Cluster

BA Client currently does not support backup of files that resides on MS Failover Cluster when using CSV volumes (Clustered Shared Volumes)
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

DP for Exchange GUI QoL enhancement during database recovery

During recovery of an Exchange database DP for Exchange GUI automatically configures "AllowFileRestore" flag in Exchange for this database.This will allow the database to be overwritten.During recovery user a presented with two dialog windows with...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Not under consideration

IBM Tape Device Driver for LTO - suppress internal speed control for big tape copy operations

Performance Problems with TSM Tape to Tape Workloads on IBM LTO Drives at the customer Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ)The customer openend the PMR 013FP4Y,724 on this case (the format doesn't fit the PMR ID field in this form).
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

mmunlinkfileset -f report unmatch error message

[root@pnsd1 ~]# mmunlinkfileset aggr3 user_scratch -fUnable to quiesce fileset at all nodes.Fileset user_scratch has open files. Specify -f to force unlink. From above output we can see the error is not accurate reflecting customer's issue. They h...
about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Is a defect

Indication for changed data amount between incremental FCs

Today there is no way to query the differences of the internal OOS bitmaps from the DS8000, but it is valuable request Is it possible to have this indication ?
about 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Fast way to determine tape location of archive data

A fast way to determine what tapes contain archive data with a particular description. This could also be extended to which tape(s) conatina an archived/backed up file. The query we have to use to determine this information is excrutiatingly slow....
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM Bandwitdth management

The need is for a TSM client to dynamically modify its behaviour depending on the available bandwith
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Not under consideration

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