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V5000 GUI change

Per my client: Please add an option in the V5000 GUI that allows a Storage admin to change the link speed from 10Gbps to 1 Gbps.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Tivoli Flash Copy Manager for Solaris 10 HA with native Oracle11g DB

Hi We need help on this.SETUP / ENVIRONMENT:Customer had SVC configured as split cluster with code 7.0.2.1 and with XIV GEN3 as the backend storage. Customer had 3 nodes Solaris machine with Solaris 10 Cluster and the Database is Oracle 11g ( nati...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Ability to save RMAN backup as archive objects instead of backup

In order to not rely on Oracle DBA to purge old backups, it would be very helpfull to be able to store RMAN backups as archive objects, which have a predetermined lifetime. Even though the Oracle backup udtility might expect to have some data whic...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

TSM Client Pre/Post

Reporting on the TSM Server of the status of TSM client pre/post schedule actions
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

SSL/LTS Certificate revocation

SSL/LTS Certificate revocation The product should contain a mechanism which can deal with certificate revocation in a sensible way. Currently TSM will allow the use of a revoked certificate.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Health pod should show loss of redundancy

If there is a loss of redundancy for single point of failure scenarios, this should be reported in the "Health Pod"
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Get ‘storage reclaim' report to report volumes with very low / no I/O usage

During a user study with internal IBM GTS we found that it would be useful to get ‘storage reclaim' report to report volumes with very low / no I/O usage.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Assign multiple datamover to a single vapp

For large vapps, one dm is not enough. It should be possible to assign multiple datamovers to one vapp (or multiple datamovers per vdc)
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Restore single vm from vapp

Select a single vm from a vapp that should be restored. Either as a new vapp, or import to an existing. Must be available from the web gui.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Not under consideration

Enable TSM API to access/process TSM backup client contents

We are going to implement the API to automate the commands "query backup" and "restore" as a web service with unicode support. Unfortunately, this task can't be completed successfully, although we orient on the code that was provided with the SAMP...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

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