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TSM for VE snapshots

System: TSM for VE 6.4.0New feature request for future release Description: TSM for VE requests VM snapshot creation at the beginning of a backup and snapshot removal at backup completion. No monitoring is done to ensure the snapshot has been remo...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Allow TSM client schedules to use "minutes" for PERUnits

Please allow the PERUnits to be able to be updated to a value smaller than "Hours" i.e. minutes or seconds
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Issue an alert for less physical capacity

This idea is related to SCSI-I-1160. "Auto stop of Write operation against oops" may be too difficult, so I'll submit another idea. The customer encountered oops (Out of Physical Space) on FlashSystem 900 AE3 under V7000. The customer request...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Ability to change Cluster ID without an outage

As a future TS7700 feature, Michael Yuan at Navy Federal Credit Union would like to be able to change the cluster ID without an outage. He would like to put a new node into the cluster and migrate everything to it. Currently, he has to do a manual...
over 2 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

GUI role for user with permissions to only manage Quota on Spectrum Scale

We have several divisions who would need to manage their own quota on Spectrum Scale. According to the IBM DEV Team and Lab Services, users with one of the following roles should have access to the filesets/quotas: securityadmin admin protocoladmi...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

TSM for Virtual Environments, lacks the ability to accept out-of-date VMware tools to run application protection.

After upgrading, an ESXi host with a minor update, application protection for Microsoft SQL Server fails with the error below. ANS9499W VMware tools on virtual machine VM need to be updated. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager application protection will n...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Ignore small differnces in tape formats when selecting tapes for write

Tape selection criteria were modified in v1.3.3.0 to improve tape utilization: P1: The tape that is currently mounted in the selected drive.P2: Tapes with the least amount of capacity.P3: Barcode order: If there are multiple tapes that have the sa...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Not under consideration

qos throttle support -N remote-node

qos throttle support -N remote-node
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Fix o disable "Replace" option in VSS DB Restore

Tivoli Data Protection for Databases(SQL) has the option to backup and restore either using Legacy or VSS options. Whenever you select Restore you have the hability to select various "Restore Options", among this options is "Replace""Replace" tell...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments - Data Protection for VMware V. 8.1.2.0 - avoid add vsphere comment

Since TSM/VE 8.1.2.0 backup statistics are stored in vSphere Client column comment. To avoid this the parameter "testflag VMLASTBACKUPSTATUS:"NONE" could be used, but the backup Information must be Manually deleted. It would be friendly when this ...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

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