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TSM V6: Show Us the Tables, Please

Please expose to the SELECT command in TSM V6 (and later, if any) all of the internal tables that TSM uses, with exceptions for things like passwords and other sensitive information.
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Delivered

Improve DS8000 Host Adapter architecture to provide greater performance over larger fiber distance (RTT 50ms)

It has been found that over a fiber distance of 50ms RTT, the 32G Host Adapter provides a maximum throughput of 500 MB/s if 1 PPRC port is utilized on the HA. The PPRC port was connected to a 32G port on the Director which in turn had a 128G tunne...
about 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

Enhance the availability for Security related currency in the SW-Stack in Spectrum Archive

In the current available SW-Stack we must complain the currency in Spectrum Archive SW Delivery. (SA 1.3.3.1, SP BA/HSM-Client 8.1.15.0, Spectrum Scale 5.1.3.1). Because of many security related issues in these components we must implement the las...
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Delivered

CSM alert notification needs more granularity to properly notify oncall pagers and email distribution lists.

Currently under Alert notifications, we have created recipients for various email support teams and emails to the pager vendor product we use. If for example, you have an "unexpected severe status' alert, and it contains multiple recipients, it bu...
about 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

TSM for VE GUI Improvements.

1.- Currently when we go to scheduler a backup/restore of VMs we need to expand the datacenter and then expand esx by esx in order to look for the VM. This doesn't like to the customers, especially when they have many ESXs. We need to see all VMs ...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Delivered

TSM for VE - Add support for Multiple vCenter & TSM Servers

Add the functionality for configuring multiple vCenter and TSM Servers to on the same TSM for VE (VMware) GUI. This will allow customers to be able to manage multiple vCenter servers and also to manage backups to multiple TSM Servers.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Delivered

Windows 2022 Support - Spectrum Protect Client, VE (TVE), SVC

Need support for Windows 2022 as it relates to: 1. Spectrum Protect Client2. VE (TVE)3. SVC
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Move data from tapes to container storage pools

There should be a way for people who want to abandon tapes to move their existing data to disk, in most recent format - container storage pools. As there is feature introduced with 7.1.6 to convert file based legacy storage pools to new container ...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

ISP4VE- Additional Tagging documentation for powershell

In the user´s guide there is no example or explanation how to set tags via powershell. It´s mentioned that for example the quiescing paramter can be set manual via powershell but not how...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Delivered

AIX v7.3 support for IBM Virtual Storage Center

We would like to request development team to commit to support the above connections by end of Jan 2022. #1; AIX v7.3 and VSC 5.4.x or later (Spectrum Control support OS)#2; AIX v7.3 and Copy Service Manager v6.3.x or later#3; AIX v7.3 and SVC v8....
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

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