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TSM for VE Using VMware Resource Pools for backup selection

Select vm backup based on resource pool, i.e., use resource pools as vm selection with the include.vmfull domain (similar to hosts, hostclusters, etc.). .
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

please bring back a dsmfmt like tool in tsm6. formatting hundrets of 10GB volumes is not fun in the command line

dsmfmt could be automized by running a shell script.without it you have to format volume by volume.that take REALLY long time.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

FCM pre-check-omit option should be added in a big environment with many disks

I suggest add an pre-check omitting option in the FCM profile. If the fcm backup can be complete successfully first time. The user can enable this option to omit the pre-check in each time FCM backup when there is absolute no change in the custome...
over 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

Segregation of roles within the system administrator class to separate Backup Admin tasks from User Admin tasks

I Have found a previous rejected RFE similar to our request below http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=15387 However this was a fairly simple request for RBAC within TSM. What Deutsche Bank require is slightly m...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Request to confirm a microcode specification of PMIR for DS8880.

On DS8870 R7.3, the following problem has occurred and we heard from PFE/Development that its cause is microcode specification. Therefore, on 2015/05 we have opened FITS MR0513155244 to request the design change, but we do not know its result beca...
almost 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Expose node groups in TSM reporting

Expose the node groups and the membership of the nodes in the node groups so reports can be grouped by the node group.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Not under consideration

Expose collocation groups in TSM reporting

Expose the collocation groups and node members hip for reporting purposes.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 4 Not under consideration

Support pureScale DB2 systems with TSM for ERP

TSM for ERP needs to support DB2 pureScale systems with the same features currently supported for non-pureScale systems.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 3 Not under consideration

Restore Storage Pool does note generate a list of tapes required and in the order needed.

The customer lost the primary storage pool due to a hardware failure. During the Restore Storage Pool process, they were prompted for tape volumes one at a time. This was a very time consuming process. If a list could be generated of the tapes nee...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Exclude.vmdisk to exclude on vmdk name basis

Using INCLUDE.VMDISK and EXCLUDE.VMDISK it is today possible to exculde certain vmdks using the disk label of that particular vmdk, eg. "Hard Disk 2". This is good, but it would be even better if we could include/exclude on the basis of the actual...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

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