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query mount enhancements

It would be very nice to have some enhancements to query mount like q mount LIBNAME--> show all mounts within the library q Mount LIBNAME showall=yes--> show all drives and mount state relating to the library
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

IM SPectrum Protect support for expired data report

URGENT Requirement : Nedbank, in South Africa, are a large consumer of Spectrum Protect ans many other IBM products and are an ELA customer.. They urgently require assistance with an enhancement for them to be able to see when files were expired/d...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

Increase the maximum number of partnerships between the local and remote SVC/V7/V9

Client has a V7 and (2) V9s that replicate to a single V7 in DR. They need to add an additional V9 in prod and want to replicate it to the same V7 in DR. To accomplish this Client needs IBM to increase the maximum number of partnerships between th...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Operations Center - Completed Tasks Duration

Operations Center provides a user friendly GUI allowing TSM administrators to easily manage their TSM environment
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Not under consideration

SPP 10.1.1 removed ability for user to change their own password?

In SPP 10.1.1, it appears a natively defined user is not able to change their own password which is a change from previous version of 10.1.0.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

DS8000 GUI should show degraded status, if a redundand compounent is down or under rebuild

The DS8000 is built with a lot of redundancy in it. To prevent drive failures to cause a data loss situation, RAID-6 has been chosen for protection. Customer wants to get a simple information or status, if the machine is in a 'degraded status' by ...
over 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

TSSC automated FTP offload of configuration data

System: IBM TS3000 System Console The IBM TSSC is being used as call home device and for event logging of TS3500 events from multiple libraries. An audit requirement is that we are making regular backups of the TSSC configuration information and t...
over 6 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 3 Not under consideration

Prevent reorg of BF_SUPER_AGGREGATES to kill restore tasks

Whenever a reorg of BF_SUPER_AGGREGATES finishes, restore of SQL data fails. Disabling reorg for this DB is not practical, since restore tasks are starting up 24/7, and the tsm admin does not know when. Some other tool must be present to prevent t...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Use TDP4HANA without ssh connections

Please change installation routine for TDP4HANA so setup.sh script does not require ssh connection to be able to work. Ideally you want to have the option if you want to use ssh to run remote commands (on remote or local hosts) or is you want to r...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 0 Not under consideration

Client Side de-dupe when LAN Free backup on disk using GPFS

Ability to enable to client side data deduplication functionality in case of LAN free backup on disk in GPFS environment.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 3 Not under consideration

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