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DELETE FILESPACE FROM STORAGE POOL (ESPECIALLY COPY)

Allow DELETE FILESPACE to specify a storage pool. i.e. delete filespace <nodename> <filespace> stgpool=<stgpool>
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

TSM Fastback Server has extremely slow read operations from disk

TSM Fastback Server has extremely slow read operations from disk:- all restore operations with both methods, Fastback Mount and Fastback BMR,- DR to TSM and- long term proxy backups to TSM.The speed of restore does not exceed 10Mbit/s (aggregate) ...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack 2 Not under consideration

64 bit support for TSM System Backup and Recovery

TSM for System Backup and Recovery runs in 32 bit only mode, making it impossible to run with the latest TSM client and TDP levels. My customer is a long time Sysback customer and uses it to write bootable backups to TSM. They now must move to a 6...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Planned for future release

Operation Center Report Interval

TSM Operation center reports scheduling is limited. Some reports for management are more useful at monthly, quarterly or even yearly intervals, however currently the only supported schedules are daily or weekly. Adding additional duration options ...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

V7000 Hyperswap reduced FC connectivity between Sites

The V7000 with Hyperswap configuration with no ISL. Two V7K enclosure implemented for two site with NO ISL configuration. Two site has been connected each other via 4 FC link . The connectivity is limited with 4 FC cables instead of 8 FC cables an...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

SpecV queue full condition not being properly retried/recovered by MSDSM

Ian Mac Quarrie and Bill Passingham are aware of this issue at GEICO. Spectrum Virtualize in combination with Windows MSDSM is currently experiencing issues when Spectrum Virtualize hits a queue full condition. This condition needs to be fixed.Bil...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Is a defect

TSM for Databases clients not restorable from backupsets

Currently if you use TSM for Databases to backup your databases you can't use backupsets because the restoring of the data doesn't work. Currently if you want to have a database backup included in a backupset you need to create a separate dump fro...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

TSM deduplicated data in an offsite copy storage pool

Customer Lyle Fast wants to request a change to the way TSM works regarding deduplicated data in an offsite copy storage pool. TSM recommends that offsite storage pools have a fully hydrated copy local and any offsite copies are non-deduplicated. ...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

The TSM Fastback function does not meet the needs of

Please expand the storage space of the the Fastback software supports more than 2TB, users have 4TB of data need to be backed up
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack Center 2 Not under consideration

Application Aware VMWare Flash Copy Manager

Flash copy manager needs to be application aware for database engines running on Windows in a VMWare environment. In order of importance Microsoft SQL Server, IBM UDB/LUW, Oracle, My SQL. The current ability of flash copy manager requires the data...
almost 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration

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