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Compression algorith on TS7700

We have lost several deasl against EMC solutions just because of the pricing.While we are having compressions 2-3x, they use to obain 6-10x, so our solution is much more expensive than EMC one.We have explained TS7700 bebefits, automation, cloud-l...
almost 9 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Delivered

Restore of VM with DP for VMware could be enhanced

This is feedback from a customer using the product, customer name are availble upon content with us but it is a Swedish government agency. Customer are on 7.1.1.300 level. The restore process of a VM with DP for VMware could be enhanced. During re...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Delivered

DBMEMPERCENT - Specify a value under 10 percent

The DBMEMPERCENT value can be set between 10 to 99. In some cases, the value of 10 percent is too high. This value can be set under 10 percent through db2 commands (with the parameter set to automatic in TSM). TSM has to be configured so that te p...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

AD Single Sign-On

We have installed TSM att a new customer and they inquired about TSM AD(/LDAP) integration since they would prefer to have single sign-on to TSM. I.e they want to login to TSM with the same admin username/password as they login to AD(/LDAP).This c...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Add DURATION parameter to DELETE FILESPACE and BACKUP STGPOOL commands

I'd like the option of specifying a DURATION parameter for the DELETE FILESPACE and BACKUP STGPOOL server commands. This is already available for the MIGRATE STGPOOL command.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Snapdiff backup of NetApp appliances running in cluster-mode

please add support for snapdiff backups on NetApp Filers running in clustered mode
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Delivered

Auto deployment and updates of existing TSM Clients

Auto deployment and updates of existing TSM Clients
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Delivered

Transparent client access

Transparent client access
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Delivered

pause upgrade process after half of the nodes are done to allow verification that paths are back online

During the upgrade process, we had a host that did not recover paths as quickly as expected. We like the idea of the automated upgrade process but would like to see a pause after have of the nodes are upgrade. The customer would then confirm that ...
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Storwize: Intra-Cluster Metro Mirror increase limit of 25 MB/s

Firmware 7.3.0.8 Customer has large databases 16TB and need Flashcopies (snaps with copyrate 0) for functional tests. For performance tests he will create a clone from one of this snaps. But with our FlashCopy architecture this is not possible bec...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

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