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Overflow data placement

When creating a new filesystem with more than 1 pool, GPFS will guess where to put the file data. It would be nice if it was also capable of spillover to other pools, when the pool it guessed for here runs full: RULE 'default' SET POOL 'data' LIMI...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

Oracle ACFS

Requesting that TSM support the backup of Oracle ACFS data. Thank you for your time,Brian
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

FCM - Managing Multiple SQL instances from one console

There are 2 instances of SQL which have been configured with 2 separate optfiles as per the old standard however the Flashcopy manager gui defaults to use the dsm.opt file in c:\program files\tivoli\tsm\tdpsql folder. We need to have separate shor...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Planned for future release

Change in DB/View structure for Proxy agent/target and nodegroup/node relations

Have relational information between nodes/nodegroups - and proxy-agents/targets stored in tables (or presented in views) - instead of comma-seperated lists.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Operation Center - limit resource usage

Operation Center should have a way to limit the resource that it could use from the servers. By not having, this simple monitoring tool can put the production enviroenment in danger, using far more resources that it should.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 3 Not under consideration

Problem with EXCLUDE/INCLUDE Backup (Option SET FORCE=NO)- overwrite global exclude/include to some local server

Hello LABS,it would be important to notify IBM Labs Spectrum Protect to put a check on the "define clientopt" command which signals the warning message if you want to set the FORCE = NO / YES option with the option_name = INCLEXCL or DOMAIN, it si...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

TSM needs to stop trying to load the same tape media to the same drive after hundreds of failures with ANR8944E and ANR8359E.

on 11/03/14 during a tape pool reclamation, 721 counts of "ANR8944E..." messages from "05:52:58" to "06:28:28" for volume I41079 and TKLI4-DR6 were received by TSM server. See blow:11/03/14 05:52:58 ANR8944E Hardware or media error on drive TKLI4-...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

support filesystem metadata migration to 4K-based NSDs

Provide a transparent (e.g. no downtime) mechanism to introduce NSDv2 4k-aligned metadata NSDs into filesystems created with NSDv1 format NSDs.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Delete induvidial export from volhistory or delete based on device class

My customer created all monthly and yearly data via export especially for TSM for VE data. Tapes should be expired after a year luckly 2 diffrent mngmt classes used for monthly and yearly. 1st issue TSM can not delete individual export volumes onl...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

allow deduplicated tape copy pools for storage pool backup purposes

Currently, only FILE pools can be deduplicated and TAPE pools can not. The reason is that a restore from a deduplicated TAPE pool would be unuseable due to excessive number of tape mounts. We understand this. However, we would still like to see th...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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