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Indication for changed data amount between incremental FCs

Today there is no way to query the differences of the internal OOS bitmaps from the DS8000, but it is valuable request Is it possible to have this indication ?
about 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Set a Throughput occupancy threshold for TS7700

The client wants the TS7700 to have the option to parameterize a Threshold of Throughput, to monitor its occupancy, and when it exceeds the threshold send a message to the system.
about 7 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 3 Not under consideration

TSM for Virtual Environment and Vmware Site Recovery Manager Place holder VM's

TSM for virtual Environment is unable to recognize Vmware Site Recovery Manager ‘s Place holder VM's. TSM For VIrtual Envionrment is unable to recognizANS9365E VMware vStorage API error for virtual machine ''. TSM function name : __ns2__CreateSnap...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Add an option to disable Client Option Set Replication

Please add an option to allow TSM admins to disable the replication of Client Option Sets during a REPLICATE NODE operation, or to prevent the generation of ANR1946W messages (or perhaps only an information message).
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Oracle Linux OS support for TSM Data Protection for Oracle

Client asks about official support for TSM Data Protection for Oracle, installed on Oracle Linux x64
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

Mirrored Mdisk Group

Ability to create mirrored MDisk Groups
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

CSM concurrent Global Mirror point-in-time copies

We run with 4 Global Mirror failover/failback w/practice sessions that use the same Consistency Group hw session ID (0x3) and we would like to be able to perform the 'flash' point-in-time copies for all 4 sessions concurrently.
over 7 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Also Implement DAR on TSM Server CLI

Currently DAR is implemented on the TSM Web Client Interface only. Individual file restores done from the TSM Server CLI do not utilize DAR. This causes additional overhead during a restore process of the entire image being scanned and if large en...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

GUI vs Command line

When I issues the command SET ACCESS BACKUP * nodename from the command line they get the following results as seen in the GUI: However, if they try to define it the same way in the gui an error is received: The results end up looking like this: T...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

SP Recovery Agent Session Selection Saving

When you utilize "IBM Spectrum Protect Recovery Agent" and configure a "New IBM Spectrum Protect server ..." under the "IBM Spectrum Protect Server" section, it will override any previously configured servers (removes any previously configured ser...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

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