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Make the time interval for "ANR3654W Inventory file expiration processing did not run in the previous 24 hours" configurable

The message ANR3654W is shown even if an expire inventory schedule was executed every day at 4pm, because the detailed time frame including seconds is checked for the message. The request is either check not on detailed second (maybe a minute or 5...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Request for Infiniband Support on SAN Volume Controller nodes

FlashSystems technical sales manager Subhash Vanga (svanga@us.ibm.com) has notified me that there is a pressing need for IBM support on SVC where it is being sold with FlashSystems. "it kind of becomes important with Flash virtualized behind it..A...
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

FCM: VMware - Additional Question for Security Reasons

In case of restore a VM to its original location, the Plugin asks to overwrite it. This is great. We would like to see another additional question, if the VM still is running. E.g. "The VM you want to restore is still running. Do you really want t...
about 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

Performance drop when performing an Hyper-V

Performance drop when performing an Hyper-V backup of a Hyper-V guest that has a disk hosted on another Hyper-V node
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Expose Host and concurrent FlashCopy limits via CLI

Products that manage the V7000 and family would benefit from knowing the host and concurrent flashcopy limits of the device so that they can warn the user as these limits are approached. These limits today vary by firmware version and hardware (e....
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

label libvol command needs revision

When checkin or labeling lib volumes TSM by default ignores the barcode even if one is present. There is no confirmation to the user and no indication that what they did isn't using the external label. Soo it is possible that the barcode is differ...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TDP SQL files under "Default" management class

System: TDP SQL 6.3.xActor: UserDescription: if the user do not specify a management class when doing a backup the files will be placed under a management class called "Default", wich is a reserved name and does not really exist.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 3 Not under consideration

Monitoring SVC Performance requires Administrator rights

Before you can download performance statistic files for all nodes from the config node, you have top copy them first from the other nodes to the config node.This can only be done with the command “svctask cpdumps” that require Administrator rights...
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Support syncronous write with ndmp backup

define stgpool says, that "simultaneous-write function is not supported for NAS backup operations". It would remove the necessesity to copy all tapes to a copypool after each NDMP backup.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Enhance logging of replication failures

We are using node replication between two TSM 6.3.2.0 servers, and were experiencing some replication failures, which was due to operator error. The issue was that one policy domain on the source server did not exist on the target server, so the r...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration