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Storwize V7000 migration logging messages

More detailed monitoring/logging of migration tasks.
about 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

TSM support enhancement for version 5.5: client, server and storageagent in relation to TSM version 6.3

Our main GSE Installation-Base are already on version 5. Some Costumers has Problems with the upgrade to version 6. To establish a more sophisticated upgrade plan we want to establish a longer Support cycle of version 5 over 31.12.2012
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

For a CLI restore node command allow the filelist file to have over 1,000 entries. ANR4948E is currently the error returned.

Create a new system parameter, say MAXLISTEN, which can default to 1000 for maximum lines in a file list file for a restore node request; but is client modifiable say up to 100000 or even more
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 3 Not under consideration

ACL restores @ single file restore

In case of a single file restore, the Windows Explorer do not allow to copy ACLs in a normal copy-and-paste operation.So it is needed to use a 3rd party product (xcopy, robocopy,..) to "copy" the files from backup to productive location. This is i...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Allow Superuser to configure vdisk_protection_enabled

Please allow user "Superuser" only to configure/modify the attribute "vdisk_protection_enabled" parameter.
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Adaptive Subfile Backup support larger file sizes

Increase the maximum file size supported by SubFile backup. We have customers using TSM to backup outlook.ost files and archive*.pst files. The file size is over the 2GB limit of Adaptive Subfile Backup, but we have many of these files and they ch...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

TCPPort LISTEN limit to single service ip addresses

In the dsmserv.opt should be an option added to set the specified TCPPort listen only on a few single ip addresses and not on all, like now. netstat -an | grep LISTEN...tcp4 0 0 *.1501 *.* LISTEN...This security issue occur if you run more then on...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Unable to do file based recovery due to Mount Function is not supported for DYNAMIC Disks. MBR is limited to 2TB.

Unable to do file based recovery due to Mount Function is not supported for DYNAMIC Disks. MBR is limited to 2TB.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Need to shorten disruptive time when reconfiguring nodes

System : IBM Storwize seriesActor : User needs to improve I/O wait time during Storwize microcode (SVC code) upgrading. When concurrent SVC code upgrading on Storwize storage series, we need to "reconfigure" a node to the cluster after code update...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

V7000 Pool View: expanded vs. collapseed view

Customer asks for collapsed view of pools in the GUI. By default, the pool view shows expanded all pools - but this is with many pools not very handy. Maybe it's possible to add a setting like (expanded or collapsed display of the pools in the GUI...
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

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