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Name string for rc relationships

When creating a rc relationship, we are limited with the parameter -name thath can't exceed 15 caracters.That's a problem.
about 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Add 'fail-back to local' authentication for Remote Authentication users

Ideally, for Cyber-Security, all Spectrum Virtualize logins should be set up for Remote Authentication, with MFA (Security Verify/future ADFS?). And the Superuser account would be the only Local account, disabled per SGC Best Practices. However, ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Functionality already exists

Capability for "superuser" to set default volume provisioning settings for all new volumes

Capability for "superuser" to set default volume provisioning settings for all new volumes, Disable 'Enable Warning Threshold" by setting it from 80 to 0. This prevents unneeded warning events "Space Efficient Virtual Disk Copy space warning" an...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 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

Improve tape restores

We notice that when an VM Incremental Forever backup is to be restored (or mounted) a lot repeated tape mounts are performed and it takes a long time. For instance, if in one of the tapes there is several chunks of data from different backup dates...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Restore VM for Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines to be enhance to add parameter destinationfilespec

We need to restore Hyper-V virtual machines backup to different server at different location. Since this functionality is not available in restore vm command we are not able to restore VM to different lcoation. As per IBM L2 support TSM doesn't su...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Planned for future release

Data Foundation Metro-DR - automate or remove manual steps to have to manually delete PVCs in an Metro-DR Data Policy App Failover

Currenty, in a Metro-DR topology, when Data Policy is invoked (from ACM), there is a requirement to manually delete PVCs in an Metro-DR Data Policy App Failover. In our env these PVCs were orginially StatefulSets. But the source OCP cluster has be...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Allow Spectrum Protect Plus to restore database to different instance using existing database name

I backup a database EXAMPLE on one server(prodserver) under instance Prodinst1. I have a test server(testserver) with instance Testinst1. As part of testing, our developers use testserver/TestInst1 database EXAMPLE. SPP backs up the database on pr...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

CSM for z/OS - Active/Standby on different storage systems

We installed the standby CSM server on remote site on a different sysplex with different storage systems. All storage connections from the active CSM were synchronized to the standby CSM server. But the standby CSM server has no access to the stor...
over 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Adding role to resync Management Servers

We installed active and standby CSM server on z/OS. If one system IPLed, we implemented automation scripts that automatically resync the Management Servers after the CSM is started. With this Automation, we are able to IPL the system without the n...
over 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

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