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DS8000 Create Certificate Request permit alternate HMC DNS entry

When using the Create Certificate Signing Request dialogue (for defining HMC addresses), it is only possible to define one HMC DNS host name. Client wants to be able to define both a common name and a subject alternative name for the DNS entry. Ap...
almost 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Dissimilar policies for node replication

When using node replication, it would be helpful to be able to specify dissimilar policies for local copies and remote copies.It should be easy to configure and maintain - also in large TSM environments, where ConfigMaster is being used for distri...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

define clientaction - change of default values

The define clientaction command, if executed without any parameters, starts an incremental backup on all nodes in all domains. This is potential risk because the administrator can make a mistake and press enter key before entering any parameters. ...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 5 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale 4.2.3 - Monitoring I/O processes

We have in our production environment a GPFS cluster, version 4.2.3, used by the SAS system in version 9.4 M3The cluster consists of 11 servers, with Linux operating system RedHat 6.7 and 7.3, being 5 physical and 06 virtual.It has a dedicated dec...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Change to TSM Client Code Deployment

Currently the TSM Client Deployment package is coded to check for 2GB of free space on the c:\ drive of a Windows client node. If it is not available the TSM client code will fail to install. The current auto-deployment package for 64bit Windows i...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

Node replication to multiple target servers

I thought this feature would be available in TSM server 7.1 but the following indicates otherwise. http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v7r1/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.itsm.srv.doc%2Fr_repl_restrictions.html Replication server configurationsA...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Possibility to manage tivoli clients schedule with tivoli operations center

Tivoli Storage Manager operations Center will be the new Administration gui and reporting for Tivoli Servers, unfortunately mange clients schedule (like create new schedule for a client or change begin backup time) is not possible at the moment wi...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Planned for future release

VSC, Self Service portal, increase in number of allowed servers mapings for a volume for ESX, Hyper-V

A customer in middle east having VMware Cluster and Hyper-V with more than 20 physical servers. But VSC 5.2.5, Self Service portal , number of allowed servers mappings for a volume limited with 5. This is much less than ESX cluster and Hyper-V clu...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

svc remote copy initialization enhancment (no zero block replication)

On setting up a new remote copy relationship the volumes have to be synchronized initially. On large volumes (1TB and above) that are replicated over a long distance this can multiple days even if the source volume is thin provisioned and hardly u...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Functionality already exists

Missing Error messages when silent installation of Spectrum Protect for VE Recovery Agent fails

After installing successful the datamover in silent mode with this command: spinstall.exe ISFeatureInstall=Client,TSM4VE /silent ComponentsToInstallBa=BackupArchiveGUI,BackupArchiveWeb,Api64Runtime ComponentsToInstallVe=LAP,TSMLicence,documents SU...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

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