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CAN SE CLIENTNAME=<NODE_NAME>

When running tsm command:Q SE CLIENTNAME=<NODE_NAME>The output can be a numbers of sessions.Therefore it would be great to cancel all sessions in one command:CAN SE CLIENTNAME=<NODE_NAME>
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Add navigation arrows to timeframes in Spectrum Control - Storage Insights

Add navigation arrows to timeframes in Spectrum Control - Storage Insights.
over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Future consideration

TS7700 MI - Inbound SSH (TCP Port 22) command line access to be allowed

Management Interface Inbound SSH (TCP Port 22) command line access to be allowed. This will provide functionality for IBM remote support personnel to directly access TS7700 while servicing without a need to connect via TSSC private network.
over 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

TS7700 BVIR utility Copy Audit ? add additional fields to help identify LVOL's needing attention.

Request to make changes to data being reported in the TS7700's BVIR (Bulk Volume Information Retrieval) “Copy Audit” utility. Currently Copy Audit reports the volser, the copy mode for each cluster and the removal state for each cluster. The custo...
over 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Planned for future release

Values also in "extents" in Spectrum Control capacity reports

Actually, the capacity reports provided by Spectrum Control have values only expressed in GiB. Since they are normally also available in extents (for example in the DS8000) it would be useful to have them also with this unit of measurement, adding...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 2 Under review

Add a administrative socket to the SP server

Add a administrative socket to the dsmserv process, or a alternative way to send commands to the running process at the local system.Using the the dsmadmc is relay hard for scripting and always needs password to be specified.A socket is simple to ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Client-options to have node backup/store client logfiles in seperate log-filespace on TSM server

It would be nice, if a client node (BA-Client/TDP) automatically could upload logfiles to a seperate filespace on the TSM server at the end of a backup job - so that these logs could be extracted from the server staff and examined in case of any p...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Not under consideration

Improvements to Client Update targeting in Operations Center

The new automatic client updates built into Spectrum Protect Operations Center (OC) 8.1.3 does not currently support targeting of supported versions, nor filtering by OS version in order to do so manually. There are two improvements I would like t...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Need complete version information in GUI question mark info

When using the GUI the granularity of the version info only displays 2.0.4, it does not include the build version or forth element of version number (2.0.4.1). Right now only administrators can identify the full version installed via the command p...
over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Future consideration

TSM instance incompatibility with git in IBM's Linux Toolbox

The problem appears to be that when login to the tsm instance account, which includes this in the ~/.profile file: # The following three lines have been added by IBM DB2 instance utilities. if [ -f /tsm/sqllib/db2profile ]; then . /tsm/sqllib/db2p...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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