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FCM Win: Enhance Altering

Currently (v3.1) FCM only reports its own error messages to the MMC. This is hard to monitor in an enterprise environment. The user should be informed about any aborted process. So, this enhancement is to add also error reports to e.g.:- SCOM (Sys...
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration

Long Waiting for access on FDEVC during Migration

During migration i file is in use by a client backup session. Migration is waiting until the file is mountable for the process. it takes very very long:Waiting for access to input volume /tsmstg2/tsm152/0000CB96.BFS (24108 seconds). This can be al...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

Include FlashCopy information in SAN Volume Controller/Storwize system dumps

Storwize and SAN Volume Controller snaps are useful, self-enclosed files used by IBM for diagnostics and support. Additionally, these files can be used for reconstruction and migration by IBM Business Partner, Value-Added Resellers, System Integra...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Apple is asking for DD Boost support with TSM.

Apple is asking for DD Boost support with TSM. DD Boost, formerly called Data Domain Boost Software, enables part of the deduplication effort to be offloaded to the backup client server. DD Boost is now integrated with EMC NetWorker as well as wit...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

transparent cloud tiering and Global mirror restriction needs to be cleared

I would like to clear the restriction of simultaneous usage of Transparent Cloud Tiering AND global mirror on same source LUN.
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

FCM: Opt to include non-db filesystems in fcm for db2

Need non-db filesystems propery included along with db-filesystems during "db2 backup as snapshot" Currently, fcm allows a NEGATIVE_LIST param, but the allowed extra data is not properly "frozen" (chfs -a freeze). Cloning has a similar option (FLA...
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Cache destage statistics

Include Upper Cache Destage Response Times and Lower Cache De-Stage Response times in Storwize statistics. (Nv)
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

TSM to issue a "retryable" error code to RMAN to avoid loosing the session

Enhandmente for the API between RMAN and TSM: problem: if TSM issues an error Oracle closes the session and does not try again; suggestion: TSM to return a retryable error code to Oracle. Oracle then can retry the backup on another channel. Limita...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 4 Not under consideration

Additional Client Administration Tasks

Add the ability to perform more client administration tasks like reading dsmerror.log or dsmsched.log files from the TSM server, or updating the dsm.opt or dsm.sys files. Grant appropriate administrator permissions, too. Business Reason: Add more ...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Delete DRM recovery plan files

The DRM recovery plan or DRM instruction plan files generated by the prepare command are not managed by TSM if the files are stored on the TSM server.� TSM should delete these files based on the DRMRPFEXPIREDAYS setting.� Automating the file delet...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

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