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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...
almost 7 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...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 0 Not under consideration

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...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Role Based Access to SVC Administrative Functions

Since the SVC GUI is now calling CLI commands to the SVC cluster, it would be nice to have the ability on a user for user basis to restrict the commands that a user is able to execute on a command for command basis. This function could be part of ...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement of SVC cache destage event logging

When a cache destage takes place in the SVC, an event is logged within the SVC. It is also possible to generate an alerting-mail by such an event. Requests here is to enhance this event message in the SVC, that it is possible to identify the volum...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Not under consideration

V7000 needs more flexible cache allocation options

The caching algorithm does not have enough flexibility in assigning cache to storage pools. I would like to see selectable options: 1) Current (equal percent across storage pools) 2) Percentage based on amount of storage in the storage pool vs ove...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

TS7700 reports compared to ORACLE STK reports.

There are some kinds of reports from ORACLE STK solution, that customer frequently use to monitor VSM usage and management. They asked us to evaluate having similar reports to:1. Identify all logical tapes in use, and detail where we have replicat...
over 10 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 4 Not under consideration

Full synthetic backups

To be able to create full synthetic backups without the need of performing full backups. Other competitors do it so why not TSM
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Not under consideration

Include Date/Time Stamp option on Sessions panel

A Timestamp column is available on the Session Details panel. However, this column is not available on the main Sessions panel. Please allow the customer the option to customize columns with Timestamp as an option.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 3 Future 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...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

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