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TSM's snmp subagent should be supported on Linux directly

Alerting and monitoring via Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus (from the ITNM suite) should integrate with TSM server running on Linux directly, but it currently does not. TSM's SNMP subagent requires an extension SNMP-DPI, which only exists on AIX. This requ...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM4VE VMDK 2TB Limit

VMWare supports VMDKs that are larger than 2TB but the latest version of TSM for Virtual Environments does not. This is preventing us from backing up large file and print servers. When is IBM going to support backing up VMDKs larger than 2TB?
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Externalise DS8000 Internal Traces

System: DS8000Actor: CustomersDescription: It is about to enhance DS8000's backend monitoring by externalizing DS8000 internal traces/counters. The current practice that is to collect On-Demand Dump and to involve IBM SME for analysis, takes too m...
about 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Button/Function in SVC to trigger disc rebalancing via GUI

Customer is requesting a feature implemented within the SVC like a "button", so that the rebalancing of the disks can be triggered from the GUI.
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 6 Not under consideration

RFE for Storwize V7000 GUI

Customer could not use GUI to add 900GB 10K mdisks to an existing hybrid pool that already had SSD mdisks and 15K mdisks.When he created the mdisks using the 900GB 10k drives, it only showed another 900GB mdisk pool as an option to add the new 900...
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Increase SVC/Storwize Total FC Ports & FC Host Ports per IO Group LImits

This request is to enable Walgreens to implement zoning best practices within their PureFlex environment with NPIV and dual-VIOS as documented at: http://rogerluethy.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/powerandsvczoningv2.pdf Each deployed LPAR with NPIV ...
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

move nodedata process information

After the issuing of the command MOVE NODEDATA the user can not know, by issuing the QUERY PROCESS command, which node that is being used.
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Decouple TSM database from Storage Control - allow for VM based TSM

At present, TSM is typically deployed on physical machines due to the requirement to present physical tape resources. I suggest that the database repository be decoupled from the data flow so as to allow the server to be virtualized and provide th...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

In-band storage management

In-band storage management access feature, to allow array management through an IO-attached host
about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

TSM Script variable assignment and flow control

Script flow control and variable use within TSM scripts is rudimentary, at best. Better flow control and the ability to use local variables would help creating useful and portable admin scripts.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration