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TSM Macro for Capacity Licensing does not differentiate between Capacity and PVU

Our team uses TSM 7.1.3.100 to backup our entire enterprise. We currently are licensed by Terabyte; however, we also use TSM for System Backup and Recovery (Sysback). Sysback is licensed by PVU. We are in the middle of an IBM Software audit and th...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Is a defect

TS7700 grid is not available about any empty private volumes.

Even when one cluster in a TS7700 grid is not available including service, user can't mount any empty private volumes while other clusters are available as follows. IEF233A M 0F06,910000,,IEBGEN01,STEP1,KT4.TEST.DATA01 CBR4195I LACS retry possible...
over 7 years ago in IBM TS7700 1 Is a defect

V7000 Gen1 PCIe bus issue causing Node aserts

When the node asserts due to a PCIe issue the node is taken offline. This impacts performance and redundancy. An IBM CE is required to reseat the node to bring it back online.
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Is a defect

TS7700 pSeries PCI bus error recovery

The customer suffered an incident with the I/O drawer as reported in PMH 49532,200,838 To solve the issue they had to reboot the TS7700. Apparently this a know issue, but IBM is not planning at present to solve this issue. It is a problem with the...
almost 8 years ago in IBM TS7700 2 Is a defect

TDMF support MSS1 device after hyperswap

on using MSS1, after performed gdps hyperswap, TDMF failed to run on the device address on mss1.
almost 8 years ago in TDMF z/OS 3 Is a defect

Use a single GUID per machine in a TDPDOM WIN86 environment

Problem title GUID flapping (repeated ANR1639I messages) Environment: Product or Service: Data Protection for Domino Windows 7.1.W Component ID: 5698DPDAP VMware vSphere 5.5 U3 Windows 2008 R2 x64 Standard Edition Lotus Domino 8.5.2 FP4 x32 TSM se...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Is a defect

TSM for VE reporting unsuccessful backup

TSM for VE, version 7.1.2, that skips VM during backup of SRM VMs generates a SUCCESFUL=NO in the summary table
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Is a defect

Correct reporting of unsupported OSes

I have been advised to submit an RfE following on from PMR 45729,001,866. We have noticed that TSM does not reliably report the OS level of unsupported OSes. As far as we are concerned, it used to do so: for example, when Mac OS X 10.9 was release...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Is a defect

FCM with custom application won't work with files >50k

FCM don't work with custom applications and more than 50K Files. There is a wait time from 1h to endless. We need a parameter to skip scanning. It's described in IC81771 but not solved. Support said RFE is needed.
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 3 Is a defect

dsmreconcileGPFS.pl modification request

The dsmreconcileGPFS.pl script will fill up the /var filesystem during the sort process, in spite of there being more than 1GB available and I am using the "-tmpdir=" option.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 2 Is a defect

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