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An "estimator" on how much space would be returned by performing the TSM DB table space conversions.

An "estimator" on how much space would be returned by performing the TSM DB table space conversions. This would allow customers to determine the value of taking the outage to complete the activity.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Multiple Cache files for dedup

Multiple Cache files required for dedup:The customer has 1 piece of hardware with many db's on it, and because of cache lock, only 1 db can do client side dedup.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

FCM4Unix with SVC - SE Flashcopy and Cloning

It would be nice to have space efficient flashcopies and clones of a source volume on SVC without the current dependencies (SVC flashcopy mapping list is really stringent).
almost 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

Exclude vRDM from BACKUP VM FULL

We would like to be able to backup full images of a VM while excluding the RDM (both pRDM & excluding vRDM). Basically i would like a similar option to VMPROCESSWITHPRDM except with vRDM instead of pRDM
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Add ability for node replication to replicate via a SAN agent instead of IP

At Present Node Replication works by replicating data over IP. This limits is usefullness in most of our clients as whilst a percentage do have inter-site links, these are typically dedicated for SAN and there is little willingness to invest in ne...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Add ability to group drives on lanfree agents

At present, tsm lanfree agents have no ability to force use of drives spread across HBAs, this is an issue because in large environemnts you cannot justify the expenditure to to assign a large number of HBAs to a client system. To prevent drives o...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 2 Not under consideration

JBB for ZFS client

The use of journal based back-up in an USS environment. In open systems and specific within the AIX client the use of journal based back-up is common practice. Since we are dealing with a "standard" Unix environment within z/OS we would expect sta...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

MOVE NODEDATA for volumes with access mode of offsite

This enhancement would result in the supported ability to move a client node's backup data, which is spread across many offsite tapes, onto fewer tapes, thereby resulting in fewer tapes to deal with during restore operations. These tapes have acce...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Multiple DOMAIN.VMFULL statements should be allowed in dsm.opt

Multiple DOMAIN.VMFULL statements should be allowed in dsm.opt for the backup/archive client for VMFULL type backups.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Storage Agent configuration similar to perform libaction, except using fewer paths

Need a path configuration tool for the Storage Agent that works similar to perform libaction, but would only define drives that are seen by the storage agent machine. Manual path definition outline From Kai Asher:For example all of the following c...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 2 Not under consideration

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