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SVC custom alerting

Customer would like to change the error code 1187 to a higher severity than warning. Warning would not generate an email to let them know that they have a node down. Alternatively would like to change alerting on individual error codes.
almost 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

pmcollector, pmsensor for AIX

Is it planed to develop "pmsensor, pmcollector" (linux like) programs for AIX ? Is there any possibility to include performance monitoring of GPFS cluster running on AIX to TPC (Spectrum controll) ? thank you
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

FILE volume locking

During the migration or stgpool backup of a FILE class storage pool, the process will 'hang' when it encounters a locked volume. The volume will remain locked if there is a long-running backup session or the client does not terminate correctly. If...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Not under consideration

TSM Operation Center features

The Operations Center for TSM needs some updates to become really useful:s. attached file
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 4 Not under consideration

FCM: Support for Lotus Domino

Currently FlashCopy Manager supports the following applications: SAP, Oracle, DB2, MS SQL, MS Exchange. Non of the current platforms where the FlashCopy Manager is being shipped delivers a support for Lotus Domino. Also, it might be considered tha...
over 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration

ISP OC Autodeployment should work with TDP installed

The auto deploy fails if for example a TDP for Oracle is installed.dsmtrace.cpp ( 146): DeployMgr psupdatemgr.cpp(1179): Terminating update manager. Detected installed package(s) 'tivoli.tsm.client.oracle.tools.aix.64bit tivoli.tsm.client.oracle.a...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Flash Copy Manager support for Solaris 11

Flash Copy Manager is supported for Solaris 10.x, but not for Solaris 11.x
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

Minimum Volume creation size flag

The ability to set a flag on the SVC that prevents creation of vdisks smaller than the specified size.
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Moving a node to another domain should not remove it from the backup schedule automatically.

Logically the command to move the node to another domain should have failed until I removed the node from the current backup schedule as the domain is tied to the schedule. Or I would expect a message prompting to continue informing me that the no...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Is a defect

TSM Client retrieval for AIX OS

Hello, We have opened the above PMR requensting a way to obtain logfiles from Operation Center 7.1.1.We have installed the Client Management Services plugin onto WIndows servers and it seemed to work.We want to execute the same operation for AIX b...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

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