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New options to TSM server query session command

Query session option to display only sessions for a specific node. Query session option to display only specific sessions type.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

SI reporting for Scale quotas needs more info

When using quotas on Spectrum Scale, a grace period can be configured before the quota is enforced. Native Scale commands can report on how much grace is left. SI (and presumably SC) doesn't report this.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Support for ClientUpdate in NAT'ed setup

A sort of auto-detect mechanism would be nice for the ClientUpdate function - in order to detect which tcpserver address and tcp port number the client uses for communication.This is required, if client and the server are seperated ny at NAT'ing f...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

JKB test feature request

This is the general description section
over 2 years ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Not under consideration

Add capability to the dsmc command to set the node name, password and contact information without prompting. Add to dsmcutil?

It is very hard to trap the prompts from the dsmc command with open registration.Need way to execute the dsmc command and specify the node name, password and contact information to satisfy authentication without prompting. Another way might be wit...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

TSM for VE snapshots

System: TSM for VE 6.4.0New feature request for future release Description: TSM for VE requests VM snapshot creation at the beginning of a backup and snapshot removal at backup completion. No monitoring is done to ensure the snapshot has been remo...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Allow TSM client schedules to use "minutes" for PERUnits

Please allow the PERUnits to be able to be updated to a value smaller than "Hours" i.e. minutes or seconds
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

TSM for Virtual Environments, lacks the ability to accept out-of-date VMware tools to run application protection.

After upgrading, an ESXi host with a minor update, application protection for Microsoft SQL Server fails with the error below. ANS9499W VMware tools on virtual machine VM need to be updated. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager application protection will n...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Fix o disable "Replace" option in VSS DB Restore

Tivoli Data Protection for Databases(SQL) has the option to backup and restore either using Legacy or VSS options. Whenever you select Restore you have the hability to select various "Restore Options", among this options is "Replace""Replace" tell...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

Issue an alert for less physical capacity

This idea is related to SCSI-I-1160. "Auto stop of Write operation against oops" may be too difficult, so I'll submit another idea. The customer encountered oops (Out of Physical Space) on FlashSystem 900 AE3 under V7000. The customer request...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration