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SVC custom alerting

Customer would like to change the error code 1187 to a higher severity than warning. Warning would not generate an email to let them know that they have a node down. Alternatively would like to change alerting on individual error codes.
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

FILE volume locking

During the migration or stgpool backup of a FILE class storage pool, the process will 'hang' when it encounters a locked volume. The volume will remain locked if there is a long-running backup session or the client does not terminate correctly. If...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Not under consideration

TSM Operation Center features

The Operations Center for TSM needs some updates to become really useful:s. attached file
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 4 Not under consideration

Flash Copy Manager support for Solaris 11

Flash Copy Manager is supported for Solaris 10.x, but not for Solaris 11.x
about 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

ISP Installer and GTK2/libXrender

If you have installed the GTK2 bundle (as described in the installation guide, ISP 8.1.12, AIX 7.2) and probably updated the RPMs to a more recent level (that is not the problem) then you run into this problem: GUI Installer/Instance Installer The...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

TSM Client retrieval for AIX OS

Hello, We have opened the above PMR requensting a way to obtain logfiles from Operation Center 7.1.1.We have installed the Client Management Services plugin onto WIndows servers and it seemed to work.We want to execute the same operation for AIX b...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Role Based Access to SVC Administrative Functions

Since the SVC GUI is now calling CLI commands to the SVC cluster, it would be nice to have the ability on a user for user basis to restrict the commands that a user is able to execute on a command for command basis. This function could be part of ...
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement of SVC cache destage event logging

When a cache destage takes place in the SVC, an event is logged within the SVC. It is also possible to generate an alerting-mail by such an event. Requests here is to enhance this event message in the SVC, that it is possible to identify the volum...
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Not under consideration

ISP OC Autodeployment should work with TDP installed

The auto deploy fails if for example a TDP for Oracle is installed.dsmtrace.cpp ( 146): DeployMgr psupdatemgr.cpp(1179): Terminating update manager. Detected installed package(s) 'tivoli.tsm.client.oracle.tools.aix.64bit tivoli.tsm.client.oracle.a...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Enable and disable LME

After LME has been configured, we need a method of temporarily stop new tapes from being encrypted, while still being able to read encrypted tapes.
over 3 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

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