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Integration of change volumes into the stretched cluster concept

When using vdisk mirror between two data centers in a stretched cluster configuration SVC also needs to ensure that the change volumes are mirrored in the same way as the primary volumes to avoid loss of the GM mirror.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Collocation for Cloud-Container Storage pool

System: IBM Spectrum Protect v7.1.7 or v8.1 (TSM) Requirement: Customer want to collocate data for Cloud Container STGPOOLWe archive medical data of hundreds of Hospitals (with hundreds of servers) to tape using collocation by node. Collocation op...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Generate Archive set

The amount of data are always growing but the transfer rate between client and server is still very slow and IBM and many other backup software are trying to solve the data transfer by using Duplication. Normally are a client only doing a Archive ...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Provision of vdisk protection time for unmap and delete

Currently there is a parameter "vdisk_protection_time" is available to configure on SVC to avoid any unforeseen deletions by an error. We need to have a different parameter for unmap of volume and a similar parameter for protecting against deletio...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

disable event actlog ANR2034

I think it would be very nice if it was possible to disable the "ANR2034" from the actlog: disable event actlog ANR2034 I have a lot of them, and they dont give me ANY valuable information at all.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

multiple backup cycles support in TSM for VE.

Multiple backup cycles support for each VMDKs is needed.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Avoid un-necessary audit logging for ls/mmlsattr/ILM list policy.

ls/mmlsattr/ILM list POLICY are creating OPEN event logs. AFAIK, these actions doesn't open the file only read the metadata of a file, generating the audit logs on these kinda operations is creating lot of audit logs for us. It's mentioned in doc,...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

TSM on GPFS quota support

del fi on repl target using dedup and GPFS . Problembeschreibung when running some del fi on a repl target using dedub and having DB, LOG and STGP on GPFS caused by the Dedup Deletion Worker the archlog was used to the given maximum by quota, i gu...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Ability to migrate TSM DB from AIX to x86 Linux server

Our Server Support team manages and supports hundreds of x86 Linux and MS Windows servers, and are very efficient and adept at doing so. They have retired all older Solaris and AIX servers. However, we still run our TSM servers on AIX, because tha...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Option to display session and process numbers without commas

Displaying sessions (q sess) or processes (q pro) without commas will allow an administrator to cut/paste session/process numbers into other commands (can sess xxxxx) quickly and accurately . this will eliminate the need to display and manually in...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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