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SVC SNMP alert repeat interval

The SNMP alerts are currently re-issued periodically. This results in operations paging out the storage team each time. We would like a means to suppress subsequent reissued alerts once the primary alert has been delivered. The purpose of this is ...
about 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Support to include/exclude Nested Vmfolders

I was thinking of using VMFOLDER to select VMs. While trying to figure out the syntax for specifying a nested folder, the link (http://www-01. ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21432938) was brought to my attention. Basically, TSM VE only allows ...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

VSAN and Sp. protect for VE

I need for a very big French customer that IBM spectrum Protect for VE VMware support backup / restore VM set up on VSAN
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Do not register mount proxy nodes in configuration wizard

After installation, the Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments GUI needs to be configured. URL: https://localhost:9081/TsmVMwareUI/ If the GUI is called for the first time, the Configuration Wizard automatically starts. At the definition of the...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Need Practice Volume Support for SVC GM with Change Volumes

Need the ability to have CSM manage copysets in SVC GM that include change volumes and practice volumes.
about 8 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

domain.vmfull VMdatastore wildcards

TSM for VE with TSM Client 6.4 allow for automatic discovery and inclusion of virtual machines in FullVM backups by using domain.vmfull dsm.opt option.Option domain.vmfull allows to specify different options in order to include the "right" list of...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

TSM HADR with windows

Hi,i need a option for dsmserv which will prevent the restart of db2 or a flag whill start db2 with force in a hadr environment parameter. problem: 1. hadr configuration and the primary system went down2. on the standby i could start db2 with star...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Error message by failover form IPv6 to IPv4

Every time a server switches from IPv6 to IPv4 it throws an error message. A warning would be more appropriate.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

IBM SP for Exchange not truncating logs after Exchange backup

Microsoft Exchange version is 2016 version 15.1 build 1591.10. We have implemented IBM SP for Exchange and have initiated several full backups. Backup completed successfully but not truncating logs.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Not under consideration

Backup STGPOOL multiple processes for individual node

When running backup stgpool, I use 8 processes, however, if you have one very large node, it will not use multiple processes to backup that node, and when you're down to only one node left, it's a single-threaded process, using only one tape drive.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

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