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FCM: Unix/Linux: Support for csh Shell

Currently FCM supports ksh and bash as Unix/Linux shell. Some customers standardized the csh shell in their environment due to SAP history. Unfortunately some scripts which perform recovery on the clone system (during FCM cloning) fail if the data...
over 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Improvements needed for planfile scripts for Tivoli Storage Manager

The process of building a server, extracting and using the DRM planfile scripts, and recovering the TSM server is convoluted and difficult, especially when you are in a time-critical recovery test or event. These procedures should be re-created as...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Tivoli Monitoring for TSM

We have ITM6 monitoring agent for TSM installed on TSM server to test TSM monitoring scenario but agent have not much features as per the customer requirements, and we need help to get those features, view with this agent. I had open PMR 13425, L6...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

Eliminate the possibility of unintentionally deleting data (SYS4039)

Eliminate the possibility of unintentionally deleting data
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 5 Not under consideration

TSM Scheduler Update (SYS4331)

The Best Practice for TSM server environments is to include Full backups on a periodic basis. With the efficiency of the incremental Forever strategy of TSM, there comes a side effect that can become a road block to achieving a timely RTO. This is...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Populate user friendly naming convention & protocol on notification - GUI enhancements

Hello IBM Team, We came across the notification which shows the "Ethernet port failure" but in details sections the Event ID Text has "Fewer ethernet ports operational" but its not populating the right naming convention & right protocol type t...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Search option in TsmVmwareUI

When dealing with large number of VMs, finding a VM for restore/mount operation in the Datacenter list is extremely difficult and equal to finding a needle in a haystack. Search option would improve this interface significantly.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Earthquake kit

Required by regulation authorities, might improve IBM chances win tenders against competitors.
over 2 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Not under consideration

Provide support to Lustre filesystem

The new FSX on Lustre filesystem available in AWS is being utilized to store data which requires ACL access. It would be VERY helpful if Luster was supported by Spectrum Protect so that the backups of the filesystem would retain these permissions.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Auto create replication target volume when establising new metro/global mirror

When creating a new metro or global mirror relationship , allow the option to automatically create the target volume similar to how flashcopy has the option.
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

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