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TDP for Oracle Parallel Backup to Multiple TSM Servers

Backup/restore performance in TSM TDP environments can be increased through the addition of TSM servers that rman uses for backups and restores. A solution that does not require manual scripting would make this functionality easier to use and offl...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

compressed volumes copy count in lsiogrp

The "compressed volume copy count" is restricted by an io_group. But one needs several commands (with filter) to get the "compressed volume copy count" per io_group. It would be nice if another column added to the command "lsiogrp" with a counter ...
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Need to add retention period for event FILETEXTEXIT

Please provide options for managing the size or age of the text file written by the FILETEXT exit. Currently we are using this option to collect the events and would be good if there is an option to manage the size of the file.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Make volume mappings read-only

For optimal backup of vmware virtual infrastructures the backup proxies (OS: Windows) need direct access to vmfs volumes over san. A small miss configuration/bug of a windows proxy host has a big chance of loosing the complete vm environment throu...
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

This applies to Spectrum CDM: Oracle settings after a restore

When running a Spectrum CDM restore job that will mount an Oracle instance from a snapshot on a host, automatic Oracle setting coming from Spectrum CDM does not enable to restart automatically Oracle instance if the host is rebooted after the rest...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Earlier warning for SVC UPS Battery EOL

Banner Health is requesting MUCH earlier warning of SVC-UPS Battery EOL/Failure/Exhaustion so that planned battery replacement can occur instead of emergency battery replacement, or worse - SVC Cluster outage. If possible, several months earlier w...
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Include SNMP agent's IP address ( Strowize cluster IP) into SNMP trap

Our client use the SNMP agent IP address to filter the SNMP trap. But our Storwize systems are not send the IP-address with the SNMP trap. All other systems from IBM and other vendors send the IP- address within the trap. We know that the SNMP V2 ...
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

change schedules in vcenter with ie10

i cannot changes schedules in vcenter with ie10
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Add ess3200 to general gpfs H36 cluster

The clustomer already install gpfs on 4 nodes(h36 cluster). The customer want to use ILM to place hot data on high performance storage pool. Deside to add ESS3200 to this cluster.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale System 2 Not under consideration

Skip or Exclude Virtual Machine SRM Placeholders

During a backup of VM's, TSM for VE does not recognize SRM Placeholders as unique and attempts to back them up like a regular VM, but since they are not true VM's, the backups fail. Need a way to have TSM for VE recognize SRM placeholders and skip...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

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