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MDiskGroups/Pools require manual size selections

Actor: Virtualize UsersProduct: Virtualize Products (such as the SVC and V7000) which virtualize other storage devices do not intelligently size the mdiskgroups/pools on the backend. This allows Virtualize Users to define excessively large pools w...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

ALLOWREORGTABLE as a TSM command

It would be nice if ALLOWREORGTABLE were a TSM command and we didn't have to restart the server and change the dsmserv.opt file. Production systems can't afford to take down the server and start the server in order to make a change like that.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Planned for future release

TSM for VE - Add Support for Creating and Adding Custom SSL Certificates to the TSM4VE Server

TSM for VE installs a self signed certificate. I need to use CA signed certificates. No matter what I do, TSM for VE always displays the default IBM supplied certificate. What is the procedure for installing custom certificates on my TSM for VE se...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Flashcopy Manager 4.1.6 for Windows does not cleanup volumes in registry after successfull snapshot

On Windows 2008 R2 SP1, with SQL 2012 SP4. When using Flashcopy manager 4.1.6 to take snapshots to an v7000 storwize of the databases with IBM hardware provider 4.15. using BA client 7.1.8.2 and TDP 7.1.6.0.Every snapshot made is filling up the wi...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Update Behavior of TSM Node Fields

The update behavior of several Node fields seems to be strange. e.g. The Field LASTACC_TIME is defined as the "The last date and time that the client node accessed the server". When a node with nodename NodeA tries to logon to a tsm server the ser...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

enhanced encryption

stronger encryption, for example encryption with the AES algorithm with a key with a length of at least 256.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Add pre and post scripts to automatic backup-archive client deployment TSM

The automatic backup-archive client deployment TSM should add to the client updater the ability to run scripts, or at least some custom commands, before and after the upgrade.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Supporting Cloud-Container Storage pools on zLinux

Cloud-container storage pools is a feature that that already exists on Spectrum Protect family but it is not supported neither has a roadmap for it on top of Linux on Z.Today Sicoob already uses Spectrum protect on Linux on Z and not having a prop...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Move Data from old copy pool to new copy pool

In order to handle tape media upgrades or tape recording format upgrades, customers need the ability to MOVE data from an old copy pool to a new copy pool
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

filespace capacity and utilization should reflect allocated and used space in the databases protected

Today it is not possible to check capacity and utilization of the databases protected, as the filespaces is not updated with the figures tsm: TSMGOT15>q fil ORAPREEDB01_ORACLE f=D Node Name: ORAPREEDB01_ORACLE Filespace Name: /orapreedb01_gpcal...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

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