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Please Expand the Maximum value for HSMMAXRECALLTAPEDRIVES

The maximum value for HSMMAXRECALLTAPEDRIVES is too low to use. I wish the maximum value can be set up to 128.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Future consideration

Add columns to the Servers table for Version, Release and Level info

The server / storage agent version, release and level info is reported by the QUERY SERVER FORMAT=DETAILED command. However the same information is absent from the SELECT * FROM SERVERS command. This makes attempts to automate configuration manage...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

allow non default dsm.opt and tdpexch.cfg file for remote management

It is possible to configure the MMC GUI on Exchange server to use non default dsm.opt and tdpexch.cfg files. Managing backup from a non Exchange server is not possible if the Exchange server is configured with non default dsm.opt and tdpexch.cfg.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Not under consideration

Parallelise mmgetpdisktopology checks

In a recent install carried out by an IBM engineer several steps repeately invoked mmgetpdisktopology to check drive attributes. This queries each drive one by one which each drive query taking around just over a second. These were seen in the for...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

SP for Databases warning for restoring VSS backups

A warning and summary should be implemented to confirm any kind of restore. When in the SP for Databases GUI, it is possible with 1 wrong click to initiate a SQL DB restore on a (production) system (log and full SQL)This should prevent "accidental...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect for VE / Reporting Enhancement / VE Data Mover Configruation

Report that shows VE Datamover configuration: - Shows the Mapping of . TSM/VE Server instance . ESXi Cluster . Datamover TSM Name . Datamover Hostname . # of ESXi Hosts managed . # of VMs managed . Capacity managed (for sizing and forecasting purp...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Summary table not getting updated while there was no data transfer

We have backup running daily for the node FITKUL0001. It seems that the data on this server rarely changes. Hence the backup runs successfully and no data is being transferred as there is no need to. So far it is fine for us as it is successful. T...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

TSM for VE / Reporting Enhancement / Daily Backup Status by Datamover Schedule Level

Daily Status of TSM/VE backups at Data Mover Schedule Level to show the following: . Scheduled start . Actual start . Actual finish . Schedule name . Datamover TSM Name . Datamover hostname . Backup Completion status . Error code
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

TSM platform mgration

We're asking for a simplified procedure apt to migrate a TSM server from Unix to Windows and vice-versa .Export-import node can be cumbersome in many situation.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Business unit field per VM

For reporting purpose it would be useful to have an option to add information per VM.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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