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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.
over 8 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future 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

SCDM On IBM Spectrum Virtualize can not do FC/GM Workflow

when crating an SLA selecting Spectrum Virtualize, can not doa FC then GM workflow, this is fully supported by the storage
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SCDM 3-site replication target support

on FS storage when a 3-site replication is setup, SCDM can not do any action on the 3-site replication target volume
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

List all volumes needed for restore

Maybe IBM can develop a tool for list all volumes needed to make a restore before it executes.
about 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

Resourcepool support for TSM VE

Support in TSM VE for creating schedules based on VMware resource pool. Now this is only possible on host, folder, cluster and datastore.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Adding a time out for server migration

Dear SP development team, We have been using TSM for decades long since v5.x and upgraded our TSM server to V8.1.10 last year. However, the new release v8.1 has not changed the behavior during migration: As we noticed some migration process hang t...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

exclude.vmdisk into client option set (cloptset)

Currently, the exclude.vmdisk cannot be set centrally on the TSM server by using the cloptset.So if you have multiple data movers, you have to set it locally on each data movers.Currently, we are managing between 500 - 600 VMs, spawn on 4 virtual ...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Add Wait parameter to AUDIT VOLUME command

Add parameter WAIT to the AUDIT VOLUME command. If set to YES, the AUDIT VOLUME would wait until the process is finished before continuing with the next command or next line in the script.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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