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Add functionality to TSM Operations Center related to Tape Drives Usage/Mounts Reports

System: Spectrum Protect Operations CenterActor: Spectrum Protect Operations CenterUser needing reporting features to assess tape drives usage/mounts in order to provide analysis for future needs in tape drive growth/usage. Description: Operations...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 0 Not under consideration

TSM API for IBMi

The TSM API is no longer supported on an IBMi. During our upgrade to V7.1 we opened a PMR because we had a question/problem but the PMR was closed with a resolution that the API is not supported.We implemented an IBMi to TSM solution as a logical ...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 1 Not under consideration

Flashsystem 7200 expansion enclosure NVME

The expansion enclosures of the flashsystem 7200 do not support NVME. All government agency procurement processes are requesting and we are taking a beating from Dell, Purestorage and Huawey. We need to fix this or we will no longer sell to govern...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Allow Multiple MGM sessions per LSS

Please allow us to split LSS device ranges into multiple MGM sessions. Devices on a LSS could still be contiguous per session, but would like to split those between sessions.
over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

VADP Proxy load statistics dashboard

Add dashboard that shows load per per proxy (and # of tasks executed) per exectured SLA. Provide more system performance info; Are all proxy's used?, are proxys rightly scaled? are all jobs active etc.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Add tunable to enable increase disk IO block size from 256kB

The TSM server on Linux is currently using Direct IO with a 256kB block size when doing IO to/from DISK/FILE volumes. The decision to use 256kB was made a long time ago, and the current state of technology is that this block size is simply to smal...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

DS8000 extensive FlashCopy in a MTMM / GDPS environment

Customer has Mainframe with GDPS and MTMM running in his environment. They want to use their LinuxOne system (Linux ion z hardware) for DB2 Datawarehouse and also want to integrate this environment into the GDPS construct. (LinuxOne with eCKD Volu...
over 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Allow snapdiff backups of NetApp CIFS volumes containing widelinks

TSM uses NetUseEnum() to determine if a NetApp CIFS share is connected before attempting a snapdiff backup. When run on a NetApp CIFS volume with widelinks, it results in the following error: ANS2831E: Incremental by snapshot difference cannot be ...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Make usage time series information available via the Spectrum Scale API

The Spectrum Scale Management GUI has time series information available for GPFS file systems and filesets. This information includes (but is not limited to) the change in block usage (i.e. how much space used) and change in inode usage. However t...
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Support newer browsers (IE11/Edge, for example) in TSM Monitoring

Monitoring/Reporting for Spectrum Protect must be updated to allow browsers beyond IE8 and IE9 for login to JazzSM to manage Cognos Reporting. Those browsers are the only officially supported by IBM, but are no longer supported by Microsoft. IE11/...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Not under consideration

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