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Storage Insights to retrieve Timezone from DS8 HMC configuration and not from DS8 internal OS

We have found during a problem ticket TS001724631 we had raised to SI support that SI is pulling the timezone for a DS888X system from the internal OS running on the array, and not from what is configured in the HMCs as it should be. Please update...
over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshots 4.1.6 support VMware 6.5

The customer HDI Seguros have IBM FlashSystem 7200 and IBM Spectrum control. They need create snapshots with an schedule with retentions. So, they need to use IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshots for this Use case. They Have VMware 6.5 and Oracle DB.
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

syslog receiver for linux

Feature to allow TSM to externalise events through a reciver that can put events into syslog without the need for external scripting.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

‘Max retries' and ‘wait time' value for VM backups

One of our TDPVE datamover has been logging the following message for 3 days:ANS0361I DIAG: The VDDK Utility Thread may be hung processing another request.ANS0361I DIAG: Waiting up to another 3600000 milliseconds to process a request to VddkFullVM...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect for Virtusl Enviroments

Hello, The tech note tells me do not backup the guests using one schedule due to the 512 charter limitation. We want to use one schedule. Currently TSM for VE backup schedules will only backup one schedule at a time, if the schedule doesn't comple...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

TDP for Oracle Parallel Backup to Multiple TSM Servers

Backup/restore performance in TSM TDP environments can be increased through the addition of TSM servers that rman uses for backups and restores. A solution that does not require manual scripting would make this functionality easier to use and offl...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

User credentials(Username/password) visible in plain-text

As per Bank's IS policy/regulatory guidelines , sensitive information like username/password should to encrypted end to end. However in IBM products, SKLM(IBM Security Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager) and IBM Spectrum Control., these sensitive info...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Under review

compressed volumes copy count in lsiogrp

The "compressed volume copy count" is restricted by an io_group. But one needs several commands (with filter) to get the "compressed volume copy count" per io_group. It would be nice if another column added to the command "lsiogrp" with a counter ...
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Need to add retention period for event FILETEXTEXIT

Please provide options for managing the size or age of the text file written by the FILETEXT exit. Currently we are using this option to collect the events and would be good if there is an option to manage the size of the file.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Make volume mappings read-only

For optimal backup of vmware virtual infrastructures the backup proxies (OS: Windows) need direct access to vmfs volumes over san. A small miss configuration/bug of a windows proxy host has a big chance of loosing the complete vm environment throu...
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

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