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Tivoli Central Console shows Wrong Data

TSM FastBack for Workstations Central Administration Console does not show the correct data.
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack for Workstations 2 Not under consideration

Different method to reset an expired password for MI users

At present when a password expires in VTS MI the only way to reset it is asking the CE to open a PMH to reset the admin user so it can reset the password of the user affected.The customer would like that each user can reset their own password with...
about 8 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Not under consideration

Password expiration granularity for VTS MI users

At present the password expiration policy for MI users is setup at global level, this makes that all users have to have the same password expiration policiy. The customer needs to be able to specify a different password expiration policy for diffe...
about 8 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

TSM for VE / Reporting Enhancement / Daily Backups at VM level

Daily Status of TSM/VE backups at VM level with following columns: . Schedule start . Actual start . Actual finish . Schedule name . VM name . Cluster name . Backup Completion status . Error code if failed
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Password expiration granularity for DS Storage Manager users

At present the password expiration policy for DS8000 is setup at global level, this makes that all users have to have the same password expiration polciy. The customer needs to be able to specify a different password expiration policy for differen...
about 8 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

Minimize impact to DS8K when replacing an VRM

The customer had to replace failed VRMs in a DS8000 machine. After the VRM replacement and when passing from single CEC to dual CEC the redistibution of cache and NVS caused noticeable service impact. Please see PMH 46510,200,838. The customer wou...
over 8 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Changing the default path of the Staging directory

The following technote describes a case in which files stored in the staging directory are deleted:http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21692439 Instead of looking for workarounds, in the form of setting a different location in the dsm...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

TS7700 forced premigration

Today premigration of a virtual volume in a TS7700 can be delayed with a storage class setting to delay to some future point in time. However, there is no control currently to prepone premigration or to specify a timeout when premigration has to o...
over 8 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Not under consideration

Support for Sony Library ODS-L30M

Support for Sony optical libraries (Sony ODS-L30M).Increase the support list in optical libraries for Spectrum Protect (TSM)
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

"-all"-Flag for "repairvdiskcopy -resync"

Enhancement for the command "repairvdisk -resync" with a flag "-all", which automatically includes all vdiskcopies which are not in sync.
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

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