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allow deduplicated tape copy pools for storage pool backup purposes

Currently, only FILE pools can be deduplicated and TAPE pools can not. The reason is that a restore from a deduplicated TAPE pool would be unuseable due to excessive number of tape mounts. We understand this. However, we would still like to see th...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Enable preferred path detection after volume is moved to a new IO group or partner node

Can you enable the automatic detection of the related preferred paths in case a volume is moved to a new SVC IO group or in case the preferred node is changed to the partner node within the same IO-group ? Can this issue be resolved by cooperation...
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Enable preferred path detection after volume is moved to a new IO group or partner node

Can you enable the automatic detection of the related preferred paths in case a volume is moved to a new SVC IO group or in case the preferred node is changed to the partner node within the same IO-group ? Can this issue be resolved by cooperation...
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Expand RR mlti-path beyond IBM oprganic arrays to include 3par

Recent guidance from 3par support is that all hosts attached to 3par should use RR MP. It's believe SVC MP to 3par is more MRU based. SVC uses RR for organic IBM storage such as DS88 and would request similar function for 3par
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

TSM Admin session timeout

There should be an effective method of automatically cancelling idle administrator CLI sessions to the TSM server. "setopt adminideltimeout" seems to set the time an idle session can remain active and the session is cancelled when that time expire...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM Admin session timeout

There should be an effective method of automatically cancelling idle administrator CLI sessions to the TSM server. "setopt adminideltimeout" seems to set the time an idle session can remain active and the session is cancelled when that time expire...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Support Zero Detect for FlashCopy Clones in Copy Mode

Can we get support for Zero-Detect during running FlashCopy clones (full copies) und by using the Copy-Option ?
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Exchange 2010 GUI exclude active/passive

It would be useful to be able to exclude passive databases from gui backups for Exchange 2010 DAGs. Ideally by using a opt or cfg file exclude statement. currently you can exclude from cmdline with exclude flag - same requirements for gui.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Not under consideration

Ability to set the relative priority of TSM operations from commands or dsmserv.opt

We want to be able to set the relative priority of TSM operations to better control what operations can pre-empt other operations.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Can we use FCM installed on Windows to manage luns on Aix

1)We have flashcopy manager 3.2 installed on windows,can we use it to do flashcopy of the luns ,presented to Aix server.if Yes,how it can be achieved.If no,any other remedy to fix this.2)We have SVC of version 6.2.0.5,Aix of 5.3 and DB2 of v9.1,3)...
over 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

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