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TSM BA Client support for file backup of data on CSV Volumes on MS Failover Cluster

BA Client currently does not support backup of files that resides on MS Failover Cluster when using CSV volumes (Clustered Shared Volumes)
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

DP for Exchange GUI QoL enhancement during database recovery

During recovery of an Exchange database DP for Exchange GUI automatically configures "AllowFileRestore" flag in Exchange for this database.This will allow the database to be overwritten.During recovery user a presented with two dialog windows with...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Not under consideration

IBM Tape Device Driver for LTO - suppress internal speed control for big tape copy operations

Performance Problems with TSM Tape to Tape Workloads on IBM LTO Drives at the customer Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ)The customer openend the PMR 013FP4Y,724 on this case (the format doesn't fit the PMR ID field in this form).
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

mmunlinkfileset -f report unmatch error message

[root@pnsd1 ~]# mmunlinkfileset aggr3 user_scratch -fUnable to quiesce fileset at all nodes.Fileset user_scratch has open files. Specify -f to force unlink. From above output we can see the error is not accurate reflecting customer's issue. They h...
about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Is a defect

Indication for changed data amount between incremental FCs

Today there is no way to query the differences of the internal OOS bitmaps from the DS8000, but it is valuable request Is it possible to have this indication ?
about 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Set a Throughput occupancy threshold for TS7700

The client wants the TS7700 to have the option to parameterize a Threshold of Throughput, to monitor its occupancy, and when it exceeds the threshold send a message to the system.
about 7 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 3 Not under consideration

Fast way to determine tape location of archive data

A fast way to determine what tapes contain archive data with a particular description. This could also be extended to which tape(s) conatina an archived/backed up file. The query we have to use to determine this information is excrutiatingly slow....
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM Bandwitdth management

The need is for a TSM client to dynamically modify its behaviour depending on the available bandwith
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Not under consideration

Additional controls allowing TSM server "delete filespace" command

A global TSM deployment with many TSM servers. Our organization has identified an issue with the current TSM Administrator support framework. The issue is the TSM support team currently has access to TSM server backup data as well as the primary d...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Add an option to disable Client Option Set Replication

Please add an option to allow TSM admins to disable the replication of Client Option Sets during a REPLICATE NODE operation, or to prevent the generation of ANR1946W messages (or perhaps only an information message).
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

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