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eviction wishes

it would be really nice if: - there was a dry-run mode for mmafmctl evict that just generated output or a logfile of what it would have evicted there was an easy way to:- limit evictions to a specified pool- specifiy a pool safelimit instead of a ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

This applies to Spectrum CDM: enchance GUI ergonomy

Client noticed that when defining a schedule for a Spectrum CDM job, there are no “Save” or “OK” buttons on the schedule configuration window (see document attached) and it is required to click outside the Window to save changes. This is considere...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

rmmdisk should behave the same for internal disks as it does for external disks

When an external storage mdisk is removed from an mdiskgrp, it becomes an unmanaged mdisk and is available for reassignment to another mdiskgrp. When an internal storage mdisk is removed from an mdiskgrp, the mdisk is deleted, thus requiring a tim...
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Populate the file space information with VM space information

The current filespace information consists of a capacity and percent utilized. For a VM backup this information is blank. I propose that the capacity correspond to the vcenter reported value Provisioned Storage and the percent utilized be calculat...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Backup status report scope

There is a pulldown on the Backup Status report in the vCenter plug-in that allows the user to select a Datacenter for the scope of the report.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

API support for backups of RedHat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV)

Customers are asking if TSM will support the API for processing backups in the RHEV environment... "Red Hat is already collaborating with several industry leaders to integrate their solutions with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization via the new plug...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Support TSM Administration Center Version 6.3 when using Firefox browser versions newer than 3.0, 3.5, or 3.6.

The browser requirements for TSM Administration Center Version 6.3 are Firefox 3.0, 3.5, and 3.6. The current Firefox version is 22. The Admin Center should use Firefox version 3.6 or later.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Not under consideration

TSM Login Banner

Security/Audit demands an authorised legal disclaimer is displayed and acknowledged before user access to IT systems, services or devices is granted
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Automation of TSM configuration

Automatically discover devices and (re-)configure TSM server/client options It's reported that our competitive products may have had such capability. Account team contacts: Ken Kelly/Waltham/IBM, Daniel R Digregorio/Waltham/IBM@IBMUS, Gary Graham/...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Add capability to extract data from existing TSM backup to a second node

A lerge number of customer require periodic long retention backups.    Currently the most space efficient way of achieveing this is by having a second node for the long term retention and running periodic ( e.g. weekly, monthly, quarterl...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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