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MOVE NODEDATA command enhancement

One form of the MOVE NODEDATA command allows the movement of selected file spaces of a single node between storage pools. For example, MOVE NODEdata node_name FROMstgpool=source_pool_name TOstgpool=destination_pool_name FIlespace=file_space_name H...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Easy Tier migration plan customizable time interval

Easy Tier migration plans are now created each 24 hour. Provide a customization option to allow shorter intervals.
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Visibility to volume and LSS use of space for ESE volume

We are just starting to implement thinly provisioned ESE volumes and have identified some deficiencies in the lack of granularity in the visibility to the amount of space utilized. We do have a way to look at the space used from z/OS we don't have...
over 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

TSM support for Oracle VM and Oracle Enterprise Linux

My customer addressed TSM as their standard product that provides backup archive across various platform (AIX,Windows,Linux(RHEL,SLES)Recently Oracle Linux and Oracle were installed in their environment. My customer ask TSM to support Oracle VM an...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

TSM6.3 BAClient : Restore : Volume and number of files : estimation

Before to launch restoring with the baclient, the number of files and the total volume are checked.It's dangerous to launch a blind restore.This functionality was available in TSM5.5. The process duration was also provided.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 5 Not under consideration

Update on "best effort" Support

Our University uses TSM Client for our site-wide backup and archive strategy. However we have multple Ubuntu, Debian and CentOS instances. Some are under "best effort". Recently the actual debian (v8, released in April 2015) is not in this list. I...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

TSM TDP Client for Exchange needs to much time listing the restorable Items

TDP Client for Exchange needs to much time to list the restorable items for a single item restore (around 8 min). Customer does not accept it and he is thinking of to change the backup software vendor.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 5 Planned for future release

TSM for VE UUID Change

When a VM uuid changes and an existing filespace with that VM name exists in TSM the BM backup fails. Using testflag VMBACKUP_UPDATE_UUID works around this problem by having TSM check vCenter for the current UUID. This should be the default behavi...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Full VM Restore into alternate datastore, add capacity, util + free space of target datastore

When performing a full VM restore into an alternate datastore it would be more than helpful to see besides the datastore name also the information about the whole capacity / utilized capacity / free capacity of the datastore to be able to select a...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 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

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