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SVC custom alerting

Customer would like to change the error code 1187 to a higher severity than warning. Warning would not generate an email to let them know that they have a node down. Alternatively would like to change alerting on individual error codes.
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

FILE volume locking

During the migration or stgpool backup of a FILE class storage pool, the process will 'hang' when it encounters a locked volume. The volume will remain locked if there is a long-running backup session or the client does not terminate correctly. If...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Not under consideration

DS8000 GUI should show degraded status, if a redundand compounent is down or under rebuild

The DS8000 is built with a lot of redundancy in it. To prevent drive failures to cause a data loss situation, RAID-6 has been chosen for protection. Customer wants to get a simple information or status, if the machine is in a 'degraded status' by ...
almost 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

TSM Operation Center features

The Operations Center for TSM needs some updates to become really useful:s. attached file
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 4 Not under consideration

TSSC automated FTP offload of configuration data

System: IBM TS3000 System Console The IBM TSSC is being used as call home device and for event logging of TS3500 events from multiple libraries. An audit requirement is that we are making regular backups of the TSSC configuration information and t...
almost 7 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 3 Not under consideration

Flash Copy Manager support for Solaris 11

Flash Copy Manager is supported for Solaris 10.x, but not for Solaris 11.x
about 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

Prevent reorg of BF_SUPER_AGGREGATES to kill restore tasks

Whenever a reorg of BF_SUPER_AGGREGATES finishes, restore of SQL data fails. Disabling reorg for this DB is not practical, since restore tasks are starting up 24/7, and the tsm admin does not know when. Some other tool must be present to prevent t...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Use TDP4HANA without ssh connections

Please change installation routine for TDP4HANA so setup.sh script does not require ssh connection to be able to work. Ideally you want to have the option if you want to use ssh to run remote commands (on remote or local hosts) or is you want to r...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 0 Not under consideration

TSM Client retrieval for AIX OS

Hello, We have opened the above PMR requensting a way to obtain logfiles from Operation Center 7.1.1.We have installed the Client Management Services plugin onto WIndows servers and it seemed to work.We want to execute the same operation for AIX b...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Role Based Access to SVC Administrative Functions

Since the SVC GUI is now calling CLI commands to the SVC cluster, it would be nice to have the ability on a user for user basis to restrict the commands that a user is able to execute on a command for command basis. This function could be part of ...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

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