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Change of srvmon directory to different path instead of instance path

Our instance home directory which is 20 GB in size is getting full as the hidden collection folder in srvmon directory is using up to 15 GB of the space in instance directory before it can get purged.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

LTO9 drive relative humidity value

LTO9 drive reports snmpt-trap alerts if it's relative humidity value is out of range. This relative humidity value of LTO9 drive should be visible on TS4300 graphical user interface.
over 2 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Not under consideration

add more function on TSM operation Center

• If is it possible we can setup server group, each user access Ops center, he/she can choose their server group to review and operation, • For sever webpage, is it possible to show both TSM instance name and OS host name, since we have several TS...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Not under consideration

Multi Vendor Support for Snapshots in FCM/TSM

Snapshot-based DP for Applications (with a broad Application Support, including Replication Control to a secondary Storage, for virtual and native Servers, including Application driven Single File Restores and Catalog Support) is seen more and mor...
almost 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Planned for future release

TSM backup solution for KVM

We are looking for online backup solution for KVM.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Allow for bulk add of mmces addresses in node-affinity

We have found that for deployments of 16 or more CES nodes that node-affinity mode is the most predictive and stable, the challenge is in deployment time. In balanced mode all of the addresses can be deployed in 1-2 minutes. With 32 CES nodes runn...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Allow deletion of csmadmin local ID

The csmadmin local ID comes back after being deleted (post server reboot). It is also not possible to delete this ID. Please allow the customer to delete this ID permanently.
over 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Not under consideration

Grid View of backup success rate

The current VM backup success report takes minutes to run for a 1 day report and much longer (I gave up waiting) for a 7 day report. If the Protected and Unprotected VMs report is anything to go by it could take over 2 hours to produce this report...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

To fix the backup issue happening due to the mounted snapshot for FLR

As of now the backups are failing for the VMs for which the backup snapshots are in mounted state for FLR. There are some critical restore request which takes plenty of time to copy the files (due to size) and we are forced to keep the VM mounted....
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Add PowerCLI and/or PowerShell integration to VM backup

Enable and document how a VM admin in VMware or Hyper-V can use PowerCLI og PowerShell to kick of a backup, set tags. Documentation today talks about that you can use PowerCLI to add tags for VM setting, add examples of how this is done. Look at v...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

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