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Support for TSM USS Client

System: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for z/OS USS Client and API (5698-B22)Actor: ITERGO Informationstechnologie TSM B/A is a standard product spreaded over all different kinds of operating systems. For z/OS, TSM USS Client is used to backup and res...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect - Add functionality to the deactivate data command

Expand the deactivate data command to apply to other clients besides Oracle. It is urgently needed for SQL backup clients. The deactivate data command should be expanded to work on SQL, DB2, Informix, and all other API-style backup products.
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

One hot-spare node for multiple SVC clusters

Some of the customers have multiple SVC clusters, but all the nodes are located at the same two sites. It would be a great enhancement if the hot-spare node would not be bound to one specific cluster but could be bound to multiple clusters. With t...
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

event filtering function on snmp trap in ESS

In ESS/Spectrum Scale GUI, there isn't any option to select the Severity of SNMP event message.
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Not under consideration

TSM for VE - File-level restore process similar to TSM BA GUI

In a virtual environment, be able to execute file-level restore to alternate location using a backup operator account and keeping the original Windows folders/files permissions. This process would be similar to TSM BA client restore process, that ...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

CIM agent on DS8900F for Spectrum Protect Snapshot

CIM Agent not available on DS8900. CIM is the only option to connect Spectrum protect snapshot to generate DB2 & SAP integrated Flashcopies https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6353361#req_stg ***note:NON ZOS RELATED BUT RFE WEBPAGE ONLY ALL...
about 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Allow to expand the size of volumes in a Flashcopy mapping

Currently it is not allowed to expand the size of a volume which is part of a flashcopy mapping. This restriction should be removed.
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

More flexible VMTAG processing

Version 7.1.6 gave us the possibility to use VMware TAGs to help control the exclusion of a VM and the Spectrum Protect (TSM) management class a VM should use. Even if this is a great improvement, I think that it could easily be extended to give u...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Bare Metal Restore (BMR) from backupsets

I get confirmation from developer that we have no valuable workaround with the WINPE + ASR method . We will update the WINPE document .As said before you must open a RFE if you need this functionality to be added in the future.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

distributed "lsof" or "fuser"?

Currently, there is no way of getting information on open files/directories per device/fileset/subdirectory on any node. The option to run "mmdsh -N all lsof /my/path/to/fileset" isn't really feasible on large clusters. As a distributed file syste...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

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