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Create, modify and remove TSM scripts

We want the functionality to create, modify and remove TSM/SP scripts from the Operation Center. This was a standard functionality in Tivoli Intergrated Portal but is not availible in the OC
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Events and reports from the IBM Spectrum Protect from VE to the Operation Center.

Centralize the possibility to view from the IBM Spectrum Protect Operational Center all the events generated by the IBM Spectrum Protect for VE and also the creation, execution and visualization of the IBM Spectrum Protect VE reports from the Oper...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus support for Db2 Purescale

Customer who has majority of database residing on Db2 of which 90%+ of those databases are Db2 Purescale requires support for this platform in Spectrum Protect Plus.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

The file cataloging function does not support dynamic disks

Need to have a file cataloging function that support dynamic disk.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Turn Thin Provisioning vdisks into read only instead of offline when they get full.

When a Thin Provisioning gets full, instead of taking the vdisk offline turn it into read-only, so it's still available for read operations and avoids customer impacting events.
over 6 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Need better support to use specific CSM server IP address/hostname

Currently CSM does not have a documented way to define a specific IP address or hostname to be used for the CSM service. I found following potential places where this can be configured, but there could be other places as well: - ../wlp/usr/servers...
over 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Worm requirement to honor the TMC expiratoin date when a volume is created.

Wells Fargo has a TS7700 related Worm requirement that would have the Ts7700 honor the expiration date specified by the Tape Management Catalog when a volume is created. This would prevent the volume from being inadvertently or maliciously scratch...
over 6 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

ISPP support multiple networks for VSNAP and ESXi hosts

We have a admin LAN and a Backup Lan, it is currently not possible however to control which Network is used for the different dataflows.1) ESXi servers can have multiple interfaces however ISPP always uses the ESX management lan for restore/nfs mo...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

TSM reports RC4 rather than RC12 Failed when an NFS volume mounts okay, but permission to underlying directories is denied

NFS share backup scheduled backup not reporting a failure when TSM server cannot back up directory due to permission denied. The event table reports the schedule with a return code 4. The permission to the underlying directories (NetApp qtrees) mo...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Automatic archive log inactivation by Spectrum Protect Snapshot for SQL

Full backups made by Spectrum Protect Snapshot (FCM) for SQL, through VSS, do not inactivate the previous archived logs, causing them to accumulate on the Spectrum Protect Server. The inactivation process is done manually through the command line,...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Future consideration

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