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Storage Protect Family

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MOVE DATA command enhancement (2)

After years of operations we have tens of thousands of tiny virtual volumes in TSM all belonging to one node. For example, QUERY VOL TSM-SERVER.BFS.106394469 F=D Volume Name: TSM-SERVER.BFS.106394469 Storage Pool Name: SERVER_ARCHIVE Device Class ...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Incluir a possibilidade de desativar a vizualização no actlog de algumas mensagens.

O actlog é uma ferramente importante para a administração do sistema, porem em alguns casos a quantidade de informaçẽs que ali são exibidas dificultam a utilização do mesmo para monitorar e diganosticar algumas taregas e eventos. Sugiro a opação d...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Restore VM with excluded hard disks requires to much space on datastore

I want to restore a VM under a new name and exclude all data disks from that vm for the restore. Only the disk containing the operating system should be restored. When I invoke that restore with the option "vmdk=Hard Disk 1", only the VM and the d...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Reclaim of offsite Filling volumes

On old style copypools and the new style protect stg to local tape, reclaim does not occur on tape volumes in state Filling.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Have the ability to choose the backup node in oracle

Spectrum protect plus does not currently have the ability to choose the preferred node for backups in the case of oracles like in the exchange for example, and we have this in question for some customers, who do not want to change in oracle
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

add option to PROTECT STGPOOL TYPE=LOCAL to select the target pool

The definition of a container storage pool allows to specify up to two local protection pools (tape). When the "protect stgpool type=local" command is used to update the local protection pool(s) there is currently no way to have it update only one...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Enhancemnt request for setup.sh in TDP HANA 8.1.1.0 for non-local sidadm users support

We had opened case (TS001622349) as we were getting user related error while running setup.sh for Data Protection for SAP HANA 8.1.1.0 because we are not using local user. hanatest02:/opt/tivoli/tsm/tdp_hana # ./setup.shIBM Spectrum Protect for En...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 3 Future consideration

TSM repository server is not supported as catalog backup target for SPP+ (enable catalog backup to repository server)

Using the SPP+ gui you can select a TSM repository server as a target for catalog backup for SPP+. I have opened a call with IBM support (TS013178083) because at 10.1.14-217 release at least of SPP+ no matter how you configure the TSM S3 repositor...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Move Restored VM in test mode to production (vMotion)

Restore VMware quickly and move to production environment
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Not under consideration

Dismount volume ALL - Add extra functionality

In a environment with a lot of tapedrives (VTL) sometimes you want to dismount ALL the volumes at once. We use TSM Library Managers for VTL's > 256 drives. Each time you have to wait a couple of minutes (devclass - mountret) before al volumes a...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration