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NDMP on Library Client

Need to run NDMP backups on a Library Client.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

incremantal backup via NDMP

Since TSM's limitation of doing NDMP backup of filer as full+differential. So if its having feature of adding incremental as one option, so we don't need to waste space by having differential backup as its become so large at one point until u do f...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

De-couple CES NFS and SMB services

From support: You can stop NFS service without stop SMB. But if you want stop SMB service, you need stop NFS first. We need to stop all access to AFM collections but still need to serve non-AFM NFS to our cluster. Easiest would be to only shutdown...
over 3 years ago in ESS 2 Not under consideration

CSM Session Overview List - Sort by Name

Suggestion when discussing CSM with Jack Henry. Back with TPC-R we were used to having the Session List displayed first by Status, and then sorted by Session name. So, the active sessions are at the top, and the remaining sessions are sorted by na...
about 7 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Request to run TSM Server on Solaris11

We want you to add Solaris11 as a supported platform for TSM Server.In FUJITSU business negotiations, there are many requests to runTSM Server on Solaris11. However, at present TSM server does not support Solaris11 as a supported platform. For thi...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

SVC Vdisk Default SCSI ID

When you create a new Vdisk and map it to a host the SCSI id 0 shoud not be open for mapping by default. Like the XIV, SCSI ID0 is reserved for boot from SAN and like the XIV iyou have to manually enable SCSI 0 to put a LUN on it. Please update th...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 6 Not under consideration

backom with dedup_device

Hi, there is no dedup_device Support with backom (DP for ERP). Thus, there is currently no capability to add the dedup option to the DB2 command when using backom. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21627065 I think we Need this.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 2 Not under consideration

Solaris x86 TSM Client support beyond version 6.2.5

The latest version available of Solaris x86 TSM Client is 6.2.5To date, no plans have been announced to include the Solaris x86 version in future client releases. We are concerned that we will bw unable to backup a large number of x86 Solaris serv...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

TSM Online Indexreorg with temporary allocated filesystem

High end customers using TSM with SSD for DB directories and running 7x24 are very likely to run into the following situation: because SSD space is very expensive, it is not always possible to permanently attach hundreds of GBs to each TSM instanc...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Management IP address failover on eth port failure

IBM V7000 7.1.0.2Problem description:We have V7000 controller with configured eth1 port on both nodes. Also Service IP is configured on those ethernet ports.During the test we simulate ethernet port failure with disconnecting ethernet cable from c...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration