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add webproxy/authentication for TSM Auto Client Deployment ftp access

The Auto Client Deployment function in the TSM Admin Center has the ability to connect to the IBM ftp servers and automatically download client packages, which assists managing large corporate environments. Unfortunately, large corporate environme...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Not under consideration

Shorten AFM/DR RPO Interval

The current design is that minimal RPO interval is 60 minutes. That is too long and will loss of huge data. Customer expect to set it to 1-5 minutes. 1-5 minutes RPO interval is acceptable in most of scenarios and it can help us to catch up compet...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

SVC Mirrored Volumes - Change all primary Volumes at once

In SVC current releases, it is not possible to switch all primary volumes at once from one mirror to the other. It's only possible switch the primary state for each LUN (Volume) in the SVC for mirrored Volumes.
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

SQL Service User per SQL instance

We're currently having a customer who wants to backup multiple SQL Failover Cluster Instances but don't want to specify only one service user for Spectrum Protect Plus which has all the sysadmin rights over all instances running in the SQL Cluster...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Working as designed -- Content of dsm.opt file disappeared?

Content of dsm.opt file can be lost
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Energy Saving = « EasyTier » + « Start and Stop » : Automatically Turning off/on the cold data storage

The Idea for energy saving is to turning off the storage (Disk drive or SSD/FCM drive) where cold data is stored and just turning on this storage when data is requested. IBM EasyTier move cold data on slow drives and move hot data on fast drives. ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Improve NQR Performance

When doing an NQR on Nodes with tens of millions of files, the initial TSM database search and sort operation which takes place on the server takes several hours. We noticed that the hardware resource utliziation (CPU, DB2 Disks) is not very high ...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Moving backupsets between device types

We are moving to a tapeless Tivoli environment. We have many backupsets on LTO cartridges that need to be kept forever (so they say). I need a method of moving these backupsets to a disk device type. This will keep us from having to keep an LTO dr...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

FS9200 - Auto expand flash copy bit map space when allocating hyperswap volumes

The hyperswap volumes require flash copy bitmap space. This space is not autoexpanding and has to e manually set. Customer has to extend flashcopy bitmap space everytime manually to accommodate new allocations using instructions in the link below....
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

TS7700 Flash Copy - Allow customers to Write to Flashed LVOLs - more like DS8K Flash Copy

DR Test RPQ- North Carolina Farm Bureau (NCFB) recently implemented a 2-way Tapeless Grid, Local primary Site (Raleigh, NC) replicating to Remote DR Site (IBM BCRS in Sterling Forest, NY). Prior to implementing the Tape Grid, NCFB sent physical ta...
over 6 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Planned for future release

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