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Ability to automatically delete FCM backups after offloaded to a TSM Server

It will be great if we had a way to automatically delete fcm storage backups after the data are offloaded to a TSM server
about 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

Provide access state for a mdisk from all accessiable path

The customer hopes SVC provides access state for a mdisk from all accessiable path, currently this is not provided by SVC.
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Check for Real-time Compression health in SAN Volume Controller Software Upgrade Test Utility

Upgraded from 7.2.0.5 to 7.2.0.8 when 2nd node hit 1862 error. Single RtC volume went offline. Same volume affected from last PMR 68963,122 on 5/5/14. IBM advised customer to remove host disk mapping associated w/ vol 66 and run repairsevdisk copy...
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Memory Quesing with VM Backup

Please allow the choice to snap a vm's memory or not in the backup. as when full memory is captured on a vm with a large memory set (64 gb in this case) if a vmdk is near full the snap can easliy fill it.also non-memory snaps run faster
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Problem with long running Incr. Backup on deduped Win 2012 Drive

We have 2 Win 2012 Fileserver with several millions of files and several terabytes of data. Now it is deduped and incr. run now 6 times longer.It would be great to implement "Windows optimized Backup" into the TSM Baclient.
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Automatic Deletion of HANA Backup

In TSM HANA TDP parameter MAX_VERSIONS is not activated.This is a big disadvantage. In normal TSM SAP TDP it is implemented.
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 2 Not under consideration

Parallel AFM cache fileset prefetch controls

Need ability to direct AFM prefetch operation (e.g. mmafmctl <new fs> prefetch -j <cache fileset> --home-inode-file <mmapplypolicy file list from old fs> ) to run multiple threads from a single gateway node in parallel for prefet...
about 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

BA-Client for FreeBSD

Native tsm-client operatingsystem support for FreeBSD 10 (amd64) in order to the future of Linux with systemd.
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Online process to convert the DB2 9.5 tablespaces to DB2 9.7 tablespaces – Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM)

The TSM servers formatted on TSM V6.1 have DB2 9.5 table spaces. This does not have reclaimable storage feature. This results in unexpected growth of TSM database over time and drastically degrades the performance of TSM server. There is a complex...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

Process AutoDeploy Linux without PING

Hi, The autodeploy of tsm client on Linux OS is using ping to compare the serveraddress from autodeploy process with serveraddress from config file (dsm.sys). As the ping is not authorized, the result of comparaison is false and the autodeploy pro...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration