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Request to add more timezones to storwize gui dropdown selection

Customer was unable to set correct timezone using the storwize GUI. Only 28 TZs available in the GUI and Gulf States like Dubai and Abu Dhabi are not in the list. Correct TZ is available via CLI so the GUI either needs to offer these as an option ...
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Move TSM DB2 tempspace to a separate filesystem

TSM can crash unexpectedly. The DB2 logs indicated that the tempspace ran out of space due to heavy SQL transaction, suspected at the time to be a custom data collection script for TSM monitoring, although not confirmed. This can now be reproduced...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

Allow selection of vm backup or resore in the web gui via vmware cluster (without showing individual vmware hosts)

TSM4VE does not currently allow viewing of VMs to select for backup or restore via VM Cluster only (without hosts). Viewing VMs to backup or restore via host is very difficult to work with in large corporate environments.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Delivered

Spectrum Virtualize Create RAID Wizard Defaults to RAID5 and allows storage from multiple pools without warning

The Create RAID Array Wizard in Spectrum Virtualize defaults to RAID5 creation. It also allows you to select storage from any number of pools without warning. This should be warned against; pools that are too large will increase the failure domain...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

SVC ability to select multiple hosts field is too small to see long hostnames

SVC ability to select multiple hosts is not good enough, the field is too small to see long hostnames and no grouping can be done
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

TDP agent Exchange 2010 DAG awareness

1. TDP agent aware of all the nodes in the DAG cluster so that they would be visible from any TDP agent GUI in the cluster. 2. TDP agent acts as the conductor on DAG setups when performing backup so backups can be started in parallel on each windo...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 5 Delivered

VM search when restoring - tsm for ve plugin/site

A way to search or select a vm to restore once you click on "initiate a restore" _without_ specifying a host.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Delivered

TDP SQL Proxy Error on LEGCAY operations

The tdpsqlc Query SQL operation errors with an ANS1532E (RC5722) Proxy Rejected error even though the config is set for LEGACY backups/restores which do not use VSS and the proxy configuration.If the operation is using the LEGCAY method, then the ...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Delivered

Incorporation of a way to change the priority of volume selection while restoring data

There is no way to change the priority of volume selection while restoring data in current TSM release.The customer would like to specify explicitly the priority of volume selection when restoring data.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

DOMAIN option to use with selective backup and archive

The TSM client option "DOMAIN" should be applicable for Selective backup and Archives.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Delivered

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