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disk names

We would like to ask for, disk names to be visible from the AIX client. Like it can be done for the XIV, via xiv_devlist This would be usefull for us, as we have host based mirroring, so you can find out the correct pair of disks
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Increase the number of Vdisks

We are using Oracle with SVC and need to take FULL snaps of the primary luns. We also plan to replicate the primary luns but not all luns as we dont replicate Temp..etc. This is creating multiple Consistency groups for each primary lun and eating ...
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Operations Center Alert emails

The recently released Operations Center supports the reporting and managing of TSM alert messages in a web page. It also supports the distribution of specific ALERTS to email recipients, allowing pro-active notification of certain relevant system ...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Snapshot PREREQ-checker silent install Mode

Besides descriping it in the mainpage the Spectrum Protect Snapshot Prereq-checker (8.1.9.0-TIV-PREREQ-AIX.bin for example) is not able to be installed in silent mode with an response file.So automated installation on systems is not possible.
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

TSM EIF events to multiple EIF targets

TSM requires the ability of directing the TSM event feed to two or more EIF targets for resilience. Target can be any listener capable of receiving EIF events
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

BVIR History Data Retention to be Increased in IBM TS7700

IBM TS7700 Stores its history information in its database but only stores previous 90 days worth of data which can be extracted using BVIR from the host and then graphically displayed using VEHSTATS. This 90 days worth of data & VEHSTATS is us...
over 7 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Not under consideration

Central management console to be able to manage all SVC clusters from one pane.

Central management console to be able to manage all SVC clusters from one pane. This saves having to log onto each cluster GUI.
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Automatic aux vdisk creation on remote copy relationship creation.

When you create Remote Copy relationships, you need to identify the source LUN / Size / Name, then create an IDENTICAL (to the last Kb in size) volume on the auxiliary site. Then you can create the relationship – master / aux. If there was a simpl...
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Tivoli Storage Manager not compliant with IBM ITCS104 security rules

ESA Security board request to open this RFE in order that TSM password rules management should allow to configure the minimum ITCS104 rules.<br />Example : upper - lower case in pwd ,    minimum length=10 ...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

TSM VE support for vsphere 5.5

Since vsphere 5.5 has already been released there is urgent need for support in TSM VE running on Windows.<br />TSM servers are on Linux Redhat 6.x<br />We are using TSM VE 6.4.1 and TSM Storage Manager 6.3 on Linux.<br />Compata...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Planned for future release

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