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Tape libraries (TS4500, TS4300, TS3200, TS3310, and TS3500) to alert if any and all encryption servers are not reachable

Tape libraries (TS4500, TS4300, TS3200, TS3310, and TS3500) to alert if any and all encryption servers are not reachable. This would useful during production monitoring.
almost 4 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Future consideration

GFS2 Support with TSM

GFS2 File systems are not supported with TSM currently and would like to see if we could enhance the support in future TSM versions. We are running TSM server version 6.2.4 now ( will be upgrading to 6.3 by next month) and client version used is 7...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

Temporary Threshold Removal for any Cache Partition

Enable Temporary Threshold Removal on Models TS7770 - VED-Tape attached for all Cache Partitions CP0-7.
almost 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Planned for future release

Tivoli Storage Manager For Virtual Environments Restoring a single VMDK

I am trying to restore just 2VMDKS ( 70GB in total) for a virtual machine but I fail if I do not have the storage capacity to restore the whole virtual machine ( approx 840GB) .
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Increase number of logical volumes to be used on DS8K beyond 64K

Problem description: Extend the amount of logical volumes that can be hosted by one physical DS8K machine Current workaround: a.) spend a lot of mandays in order to consolidate multiple logical (!) volumes to less logical (!) volumes. b.) spend qu...
over 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

TSM IBM

Customer request to get a TSM BA client supported on FreeBSD OS, and need to take this compatibility in the future releases
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Support to backing up MongoDB on Ubuntu servers

We have MongoDB on Ubuntu servers and need to backup them.
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Backing up prefered SQL Always-on node

We want to be able to choose which node to backup on a SQL Always-on infrastructure.
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

TSM V6 database Reorg Status

The requirement is to be able to report the status and progress of database Reorg from within TSM rather than through DB2 (e.g. query database f=d - is it finished and if not how much more to run). Also it would be good to be able to schedule reor...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Automatic pool size increment by simple resize of underlying mdisks (e.g. Storwize LUNs)

Increasing the size of a pool consisting of mdisks from Storewize needs the following steps according to an discussion with our external partner:- create new LUNs on Storwize and map to SVC- integrate into pool on SVC- migrate data to bigger LUNs ...
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration