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TSM does not start Migrations properly

TSM-Server does not start any new Migrations if there is still 1 Migration running from the previous "reaching HiMig".Example1. HiMig reached = 8 migrations started for diskpool2. Migrations running an decreasing utilisation of pool3. LoMig reache...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Detection of unbalanced metrics for spectrum virtualize machine

example 1In spectrum virtualize family , IO group is made of two nodes.Usually the metrics of those two nodes should be about similar, if two nodes (of the same IO group) are showing very different value for same metric this may be the sign for a ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Dependent snapshots support (with excluding filters for independent snapshots)

For filesystems with large ramifications into independent filesets and then several thousands of dependent filesets, it sometimes becomes cumbersome to manage snapshots at the independent fileset level. Allowing also the ability to do the other wa...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Use the logged on User ID from the CSM GUI for authority checking rather than the STC user from the CSM Server

If an update is made from the (e.g.) portpairing.csv from the CSM Web Interface (Version 6.2.8) there is no security checking whether if this user has the necessary permission to update this file. The update will be with the STC User from the CSM ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 6 Not under consideration

SPP to be aware of vSAN storage policy during VM backup/restore

SPP to be aware of vSAN storage policy during VM backup/restoreSPP is not currently aware of vSAN storage policy during VM backup/restore. VM(s) will be restored with the default vSAN storage policy, not the one specified in the source VM(s). It w...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Support for Cloud Containers (such as COS/Cleversafe) from Linux on Power

Currently we have clients moving from old Power 7 boxes to new Power 8 boxes who want to start a new TSM server on Linux In addition clients are keen on COS/Cleversafe for more than just TSM. The lack of Cloud Container support from Linux on Power...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Multisite Connect

When backing up a big VMware environment it is necessary that the customer can select multiple vCenters as source and multiple Spectrum Protect Servers as Backup destination.Enable management of data protection for multiple vCenters from a single ...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Disable the necessary SMB V1 to install product of TSM throught Installation Manager

Install Tivoli Storage Manager products using the Installation Manager it is necessary to have enable the SMB1 protocol.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Copy Data Manager Support for Oracle ACFS on AIX and Linux

Oracle's new filesystem implentation is called ACFS, taking over ASM. CDM supports virtual ACFS on Windows. Need to have support for physical filesystems on AIX and Linux supporting ACFS
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Planned for future release

Customer access to download and manipulate logfiles

Since customer is allowed to do a code load it is evident that the log files should not contain any errors. Since the logfiles can only be downloaded from call home support and manipulated we have an issue when the customer initiated code load fails.
almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

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