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DS8000 - Copy Services support for LUN sizes greater than 2 TB.

Currently, DS8000 Copy Services are not supported for LUN sizes that are greater than 2 TB. This limit is restrictive. In today's environment of ever increasing datasets it is time that Copy Services support LUN sizes greater than 2 TB. I would re...
about 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

Remove mandatory parameters database_name and instance_name for mount/unmount operations of Oracle and OraSAP

For the mount operation of Oracle and OraSAP snapshots without TAPE_BACKUP_PENDING usability state, the parameters "-d database_name" and "-i instance_name" are mandatory, but actually not needed. The backup_id parameter should be enough to find o...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Delivered

Spectrum Scale GPFS support for Splunk

GPFS is not a supported file system by vendor Splunk
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

AIX v7.3 support for IBM Virtual Storage Center

We would like to request development team to commit to support the above connections by end of Jan 2022. #1; AIX v7.3 and VSC 5.4.x or later (Spectrum Control support OS)#2; AIX v7.3 and Copy Service Manager v6.3.x or later#3; AIX v7.3 and SVC v8....
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

CLI option to view TB managed by CSM

On CSM v6.3, on the overview page, it will show below details:Remote copy source volumes (not cascaded): 62 ( 411.9 GiB )FlashCopy source volumes: 78 ( 1.1 TiB )Volumes protected by Safeguarded Copy: 0 ( 0.0 KiB )Volumes used as targets: 141 ( 2.6...
about 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 4 Delivered

TSM V6: Show Us the Tables, Please

Please expose to the SELECT command in TSM V6 (and later, if any) all of the internal tables that TSM uses, with exceptions for things like passwords and other sensitive information.
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Delivered

TSM for VE GUI Improvements.

1.- Currently when we go to scheduler a backup/restore of VMs we need to expand the datacenter and then expand esx by esx in order to look for the VM. This doesn't like to the customers, especially when they have many ESXs. We need to see all VMs ...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Delivered

TSM for VE - Add support for Multiple vCenter & TSM Servers

Add the functionality for configuring multiple vCenter and TSM Servers to on the same TSM for VE (VMware) GUI. This will allow customers to be able to manage multiple vCenter servers and also to manage backups to multiple TSM Servers.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Delivered

Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments: Multiple VMware webclient plug-in registrations in one VCenter server

Customer would like to have the possibility of multiple TSM4VE plug-in registrations on the same vCenter server. In case customers are using more than one Spectrum Protect TDP configurations within one VSphere environment, multiple DP GUI connecti...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Delivered

Bug in Spectrum Protect - LDAP timout issues stop the SP server starting

When starting the Spectrum Protect/TSM server it goes through the startup procedures.Part of this startup checks the LDAP connections.If the LDAP connection times out, then the SP server fails to start.The RFE is that if the LDAP fails then the SP...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

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