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This applies to Spectrum CDM: Oracle settings after a restore

When running a Spectrum CDM restore job that will mount an Oracle instance from a snapshot on a host, automatic Oracle setting coming from Spectrum CDM does not enable to restart automatically Oracle instance if the host is rebooted after the rest...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Backing-Out CSM upgrade on DS8K Box.

1. The ability to revert/back-out/uninstall a CSM upgrade on a DS8K machine and reinstate the CSM server software that was just overlaid with the new code.
over 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Earlier warning for SVC UPS Battery EOL

Banner Health is requesting MUCH earlier warning of SVC-UPS Battery EOL/Failure/Exhaustion so that planned battery replacement can occur instead of emergency battery replacement, or worse - SVC Cluster outage. If possible, several months earlier w...
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Include SNMP agent's IP address ( Strowize cluster IP) into SNMP trap

Our client use the SNMP agent IP address to filter the SNMP trap. But our Storwize systems are not send the IP-address with the SNMP trap. All other systems from IBM and other vendors send the IP- address within the trap. We know that the SNMP V2 ...
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

change schedules in vcenter with ie10

i cannot changes schedules in vcenter with ie10
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Add ess3200 to general gpfs H36 cluster

The clustomer already install gpfs on 4 nodes(h36 cluster). The customer want to use ILM to place hot data on high performance storage pool. Deside to add ESS3200 to this cluster.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale System 2 Not under consideration

Skip or Exclude Virtual Machine SRM Placeholders

During a backup of VM's, TSM for VE does not recognize SRM Placeholders as unique and attempts to back them up like a regular VM, but since they are not true VM's, the backups fail. Need a way to have TSM for VE recognize SRM placeholders and skip...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Migrate Inactive Data from StoragePools

Need the ability to migrate inactive data from storage pools. When large disk pools are used (typically with dedup) and these pools fill, there is no way to automatically migrate data in a selective manner. Using Age based migration rules results ...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM for VE backups reporting completed when VM's have failed

As we can see below from the summary report 21 VM's were processed, 20 completed successfully, 1 failed but the scheduled event completed successfully: 04/27/2016 22:07:46 Total number of virtual machines backed up successfully: 2004/27/2016 22:07...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

support Datamover and Proxy 8.1.6 on Windows Server 2016 SAC (not LTSC)

Consider to add support for Windows Server 2016 LTSC and Windows Server 2016 SAC for Datamover and Proxynode TSM for VE 8.1.6
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

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