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Check for "detected hardware needing activation" to the SAN Volume Controller Software Upgrade Test Utility

Sprint. We recently performed an SVC upgrade from 6304 to 7109 on CG8 nodes. We overlooked the fact that these nodes had the 10G cards in them. As the upgrade was completing we started receiving the node error 841 for detected hardware needing act...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

List in GUI vdisk-view allocated capacity of all 3 tiers of a 3-tier-hybrid pool even one tier is not allocated

Can you list in the GUI's vdisk-view the allocated capacity value of all 3 tiers of a 3-tier-hybrid pool any time even one tier is not allocated ? In example:a volume contents of 100 extents (1GB), is assigned to 3-tier-pool10 GB Flash Tier alloca...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Can we have the option to add multiple TEC(Omnibus) hosts to dsmserv.opt (TSM)

Can we have ability to add multiple TEC(Omnibus) servers to the dsmserv.opt file in TSM
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

write priority selectable via GUI

Write priority should be selectable each time a new vdisk ist created via GUI or should be pre-defined e.g.via global settings (if possible).Most SVC installations (99%) are stretched cluster and in my opinion it is most important to select the ri...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Alternate Syslog ports in SVC

We're using a Splunk environment that requires the Splunk server to listen on a different port per client. To use the Syslog processing capabilities, we need to use a non-default port for Syslog on the SVC configuration side.
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

TDP for VE

TDP For VE is trying to make backup VMWARE machines, that are not online.We have 2 DataCenter using SRM.this is a horrible situation to manage on a large environment.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Replication on Migration

Parameter for Storagepools to have a replication on migration instead of copy on migration.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Not under consideration

enhanced stretch cluster with only one Iogrp

Add process that a single node is able to update both sites in an enhanced stretched Cluster.This would enable support for an enhanced stretched cluster with only one IOgrp.
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

limitation in TSM Server database should map POSIX standard

The limitation of different columns length in the TSM Server DB2 database does not match the limitation in reality. For example: PATH_MAX or MAX_PATH length according to OS POSIX standard is 4096 characters; while in db2 it is set to 1025 for FILE...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Option "Relable Scratch" for ACSLS Library

We use an Fujitsu Eternus Centricstore as an ACSLS Library, but with an ACSLS Library it is not possible to "relable" the Logical Volumes when they go to "Scratch" Status and to free up Space on the physical Tapes.To provide this at the Moment you...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration