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Archive log utilization query

TSM 6.1 and up have no way to show the archive log utilization in the admin client. This seems to be an oversight. The query log command should be able to display this info. It should also be available via a select statement. The only way to get t...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

Online Backup/Restore capability for CP4BA(21.0.3) provided by IBM Storage Fusion

Team, We have a Canadian customer(Canada Life) who requires online backup/restore solution for their CP4BA v 21.0.3 running in ARO via IBM Storage Fusion.Below are the applications which client will be deploying via CP4BA v21.0.3.· CPE· CSS· ICN· ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Flow diagram between the pods in OpenShift

In order to better understand Spectrum Discover a flow diagram would be very useful. For example: We open the web UI and click on connections:frontend pod -> connmgr -> db2whrest 2. We start a policy via the REST endpoint:policyengine pod -&...
over 1 year ago in Storage Discover 1 Not under consideration

For case TS002612329, we need to increase the character limit of future versions of the TSM/TDPSQL from 1790 to 4000.

491/5000We have a problem with a restore of BD in PMR TS002612329 and we need to increase the character limit of future versions of the "IBM Spectrum Protect for Databases: Data Protection for Microsoft SQL Server" product from 1790 to 4000. The a...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Not under consideration

If the CLI option /configfile points to non existent file the tdpsqlc command should end in error..

If we have in a sqlfull.bat script: tdpsqlc backup * full /configfile=someconfig.cfg and the file "someconfig.cfg" does not exist, the command runs along with default config and returns with rc=0. Problem with that is if "somconfig.cfg" once exist...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Is a defect

IBM Storage plug-in for VMware needs the ability to assign cache io group

When using the IBM Storage plugin for VMware to create RDM or when using the IBM VASA to create vVols we need to ability to assign the cache io group. when we create a new vdisk on storage pool io group1 we want the cache io group1 assign and not ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Operations Center: Select multiple (but not all) servers for a report

Currently, you can select either one or all servers for a report. It would be very helpfull if you would be able to select a subset of servers.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Future consideration

Do not register mount proxy nodes in configuration wizard

After installation, the Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments GUI needs to be configured. URL: https://localhost:9081/TsmVMwareUI/ If the GUI is called for the first time, the Configuration Wizard automatically starts. At the definition of the...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

SPP restore skip existing files

Would like the ability to do file restores with the option of do not overwrite existing. Currently, if "Overwrite existing Files/Folders" is not checked, restore fails at first existing directory. The functionality should be similar to the Spectru...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

certify with cisco NX-OS 8.4 (2a)

actually the nx-os Version of the cisco MDS 9700 8.4(2a) is not certify with spectrum control .. but this version is not the last .. and we need to have this version certify to able to have some support on it !
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review