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Need to internally archive audit logs when removing cluster data

When a T3 recovery is performed, cluster logs for the previous instance of the system are destroyed. This means if a malicious user were to perform unauthorized changes, then do a T3 recovery, that the audit trail documenting said actions is lost....
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Use different option and configuration files in FlashCopyManager for TDP SQL

Since the TDP for SQL GUI has been deprecated and replaced by FlashCopyManager as a GUI, we are unable to select which "dsm.opt" and "tdpsql.cfg" files will be used to perform backups and restores i.e. we are forced to use the default ones: * "c:\...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 3 Not under consideration

Describe how to install/upgrade purchased DAE/DME license files when first using Spectrum Scale Developer Edition

Client wants to install Spectrum Scale Developer Edition today while waiting to receive their DME licenses. Requesting documentation which describes how to install/upgrade purchased DAE/DME license files when Spectrum Scale Developer Edition is cu...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

Improve 'mmvdisk filesystem delete' behavior

When deleting a vdisk set from a filesystem the command is: mmvdisk filesystem delete --file-system udata --vdisk-set VS2It responds with:mmvdisk: This will run the GPFS mmdeldisk command on file system 'udata'But it does NOT say what it is going ...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

SPP integration n the IBM Resiliency Orchestration tools (IRO/CRO)

We have an urgent request from a Bank in Spain in UK to have IBM SPP integrated in the IBM Resiliency Orchestration tools (IRO/CRO) We heard that there are plans fro Q3 2019 but the customer will not accept this and wants the integration to happen...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Enhancemnt request for setup.sh in TDP HANA 8.1.1.0 for non-local sidadm users support

We had opened case (TS001622349) as we were getting user related error while running setup.sh for Data Protection for SAP HANA 8.1.1.0 because we are not using local user. hanatest02:/opt/tivoli/tsm/tdp_hana # ./setup.shIBM Spectrum Protect for En...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 3 Future consideration

Manually importing global mirror relationships from IBM Storwize products to IBM CSM without deleting consistency groups

Should have capability to import existing Global Mirror relationships to Copy Services Manager.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

prioritize free space balancing in container storage pool directories more efficiently

For example: rather than filling some directories up to 100% while leaving others at 40%, have all directories at 60%Currently experiencing an ongoing issue for over 1 year where directories are maxing out at 100% full because it fills them up wit...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

FCM - Managing Multiple SQL instances from one console

There are 2 instances of SQL which have been configured with 2 separate optfiles as per the old standard however the Flashcopy manager gui defaults to use the dsm.opt file in c:\program files\tivoli\tsm\tdpsql folder. We need to have separate shor...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Planned for future release

Spectrum Scale DMAPI Locking issues

mmap calls are allowed against files where we have acquired DM_RIGHT_EXCLUSIVE, as long as the handle used for mmap was opened before the exclusive right was acquired. Acquiring DM_RIGHT_EXCLUSIVE access on a file with current active mmaps succeed...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

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