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V7K - Failure of command to unmap or delete a LUN identified with I/O (sys4736)

The V7K should be able to prohibit a LUN from being unmapped or deleted should there be any I/O. Although, there still could be a need to remove a LUN from a clustered server group (removing a server from the cluster). We would like the option to ...
over 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

SVC ALUA support for VMware

SVC does support the SCSI ALUA standard as well as VMware. VMware has a dedicated Storage Array Type Plug-in (SATP) for using ALUA called VMW_SATP_ALUA SATP. This SATP needs to support SVC just like it supports other IBM storage (e.g. DS3000, DS40...
over 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Delivered

Recovery mailbox EXCHANGE

The feature exists, but don´t work correctly. TDP EXCHANGE don´t work fine and in several situations we aren´t able to recovery mailboxes. The tools designed don´t work as expected
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 3 Delivered

SVC nodes with more than 4 FC ports

Instead of having the two 10 GB Ethernet ports in the SVC (2145-CG8) we need another 4 port FC adapter. As an alternative a new SVC engine should have at least 8 FC ports.
over 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

make comprestimator available as an SVC internal command

Please can you internalise the 'comprestimator' functionality as a command within the SVC
over 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 8 Delivered

FCM for mail with version 6.3.0.1 can not use different dsm.opt files.

FCM for mail with version 6.3.0.1 can not use different dsm.opt files. Alternate reference config and opt files are only usable with tdpexc andtdpexcc, but not for the MMC GUI for flashcopy.But this is necessary for the "mailbox browser" feature. ...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 3 Delivered

TDP rebinding of all inactive backups to new management class

When management class changes for TDP backups TDP will rebind all previous backups to the new management class. This is opposite to TSM file level behaviour. Backups that have long retention like 7 years would all be lost by simple management clas...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 3 Delivered

ITM for TSM agent (SK) is un-usable in existing environment

ITM for Tivoli Storage Manager is only offered as an all-inclusive ITM installation (utilizing the much loathed DE no less..) This packaging is different than any other ITM agent offered by IBM that we have seen. It makes remotely deploying, maint...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

TSM reporting problem.

As I described in 02641,EUB,649, please modify the DB2 database design to allow us to able to use the real ‘Start Date' and and ‘End Date' instaed of '00:00:00' in the table of 'Node Activity' on the TSM admin center DB2 database. I was told this ...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

Single Item Restore - Security Risk

IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager must be operating in an account with membership in the Organization Management group. You must also have local Administrator privilege.For Mailbox Restore and Mailbox Restore Browser operations, membership in t...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 3 Delivered

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