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TSM VE support vSphere 5.1 tags to assign VMs into managment class

vSphere 5.1 has introduced tags. See http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/Whats-New-VMware-vCenter-Server-51-Technical-Whitepaper.pdfFrom the doc: The enhanced VMware® vCenterTM Inventory Service (vCenter Inventory Service) optimizes client s...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Store SSL Certificate using name instead of IP on client dsmcert.kdb

When connecting to a new Spectrum Protect server, certificate to the client dsmcert.kdb file is automatically added with a label of "ipaddress:port". This is problem with tunnel configuration where each Spectrum Protect server is associated to the...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

mmnetverify fails ungracefully when --target-node is Windows node

When run from Scale node on x86 RHEL 7.3 (x86), mmnetverify fails ungracefully when --target-node is a Windows node.Moreover, it fails inconsistently when used with the node's "Scale" interface vs. the Admin node name, providing additional confusion.
about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Is a defect

Hung Process control

During the time of impact to the GUI we encountered an issue with generating support saves which slowed down and increased delays in recovery. If there was a method to kill the current running process used for the support save collection, it might...
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Is a defect

timeout for a locked volume

There is a possibility of a volume that is being used by a backup session be requested by a migration process, but because it is locked the migration process can enter in a "waiting for access to input volume" state that can lasts a very long time...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Command required to terminate tape optimization recall

No command is available to terminate a tape optimization recall(TOR).Now you need to invoke "ctrl+c" if you have access to the shell in which the dsmrecall is running, or search its process ID and issue "kill SIGTERM". dsmq + dsmrm can be used for...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Future consideration

Need a function displaying the recalls optimized for tape access

Currently you are not able to see which file is being recalled in case of tape optimization recall(TOR).The dsmq command is not applicable to TOR.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Not under consideration

selective objectizer feature needed

In unfied file and object env, there is some cases that ibmobjectizer should have an option to run only some selective filesets or containers to avoid sudden additional heavy workload due to ibmobjectizer run.
about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

tdposync with script

Since migration to version 6.3.0, we are no more able to use tdposync in script because password is request on concole or terminal. Many Oracle DB is hosted in our Data Centers and cleanup TSM with RMAN Catalog can be a heavy load if this opportin...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 4 Planned for future release

restore stg xxx preview=yes

Env TSM Srv 6.2.3.0 for Windows x86_64 SrvName: DKS006_SERVER1 Problem: The client complained the output of the "Restore Stg ...PREVIEW=YES" command. He expect like described in documentation a complete and simple list of all volumes which are req...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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