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    Re-instate prereq check script in 7.1 install

    In the 6.3 installation tar file there was a pre-req check script. This is no longer available in 7.1. please re-instate the functionality
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Message ANR0422W should be changed when an admin fails the connection.

    Message ANR0422W should be changed when an admin fails the connection. This makes some reporting / alerting tools to believe that a backup may be configured incorrectly when it's clearly not the case.
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    TSM aware of VTLs features (dedup and replication)

    Copying client data using node replication requires a lot of bandwidth and many customers don´t want to use TSM dedup since they already have dedup atVTL levels (protectier and datadomain). It would be great if TSM server could be aware of VTL rep...
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    dsmmigundelete command re-create stub files for individual files

    When space management migrate file to TSM storage, a stub file created in place of the original file, in some case, user need to recover one or more stub files because it deleted by mistake, and if these file are not protect by B/A client, the onl...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 0 Not under consideration

    SVC option to remove vdisk on schedule

    Problem description: if vdisk deletions are requested, we always keep them an extra month ; this to prevent if a vdisk deletion was requested by mistake ; or to restore files from itCurrent workaround: we created some scripts to make this possible...
    over 8 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Add Spectrum Virtualize topology property for alert rule creation

    Add Spectrum Virtualize topology property for alert rule creation Port to local node response time alerts is a good way to check for issue or potential issueThreshold should be different depending of the topologyTopology can be standard, stretch a...
    over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Periodic Backup of Backed up Data (Monthlies etc)

    If a TSM administrator needs to take periodic, i.e. weekly, monthly, half year, year end additional copies of data other than 'file/unstructured' the administrator must currently create additional schedules to take additional copies. A lot of envi...
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

    Volume Creation date and User data

    We would like to see the ability to see the volume creation date and what user created the volume as a selectable field in the GUI
    over 8 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    TSM replication process duration

    I think a duration parameter will be great with the replication process of TSM. Duration also exist with expiration, reclamation so why not implement this also with replication
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    If TSM hasn't got Full backup of SQL DB, raise Diff/log backup to Full

    Now when a 'tdpsqlc backup diff' backup runs for a SQL db instance only DB's with existing Full backup are backed up. DB's that have just been created will make the schedule that starts the backup fail with an error in the tdpsqlc log like this: "...
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

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