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query mount enhancements

It would be very nice to have some enhancements to query mount like q mount LIBNAME--> show all mounts within the library q Mount LIBNAME showall=yes--> show all drives and mount state relating to the library
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Operations Center - Completed Tasks Duration

Operations Center provides a user friendly GUI allowing TSM administrators to easily manage their TSM environment
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Not under consideration

GPFS Support in Linux for DataStage binaries

Too many processes/threads executing mmap() functions accessing executable library functions which results in an increase in GPFS lock contention
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Multi-tenancy: Add the feature to show only the resources belonging to the a specific RG.

Add the feature to show only the resources belonging to the an specific RG.
almost 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

FCM: Support for Lotus Domino

Currently FlashCopy Manager supports the following applications: SAP, Oracle, DB2, MS SQL, MS Exchange. Non of the current platforms where the FlashCopy Manager is being shipped delivers a support for Lotus Domino. Also, it might be considered tha...
over 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration

Client Side de-dupe when LAN Free backup on disk using GPFS

Ability to enable to client side data deduplication functionality in case of LAN free backup on disk in GPFS environment.
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 3 Not under consideration

Reporting Enhancements for TSM4VE environment

With TSM version 6.3.5 the rename filespace command is not supported anymore. This feature provided to us possibility of having a clear separation of active and expired(decomissioned) VMware virtual machine filespaces.We also used for monitoring a...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

DataStore Free Space Check Before Creating Snapshot

TSMVE Should check Free Space on VMware Data Store Before creating a snapshot. If there is low space on Datastore then Snapshot can cuase the Datastore to go out of diskspace and unstable the VM's on that Datastore
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Repackage the Visual C++ installer to install to same folder as TSM Client during installation to avoid conflict with apps

We need the TSM Client to install its VC++ component into a different directory than the default common/shared directory that other apps use. This is so that when we install or upgrade the tsm client, it does not upgrade the shared VC++ that other...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Increase the maximum number of partnerships between the local and remote SVC/V7/V9

Client has a V7 and (2) V9s that replicate to a single V7 in DR. They need to add an additional V9 in prod and want to replicate it to the same V7 in DR. To accomplish this Client needs IBM to increase the maximum number of partnerships between th...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

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