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Externalise DS8000 Internal Traces

System: DS8000Actor: CustomersDescription: It is about to enhance DS8000's backend monitoring by externalizing DS8000 internal traces/counters. The current practice that is to collect On-Demand Dump and to involve IBM SME for analysis, takes too m...
almost 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

No image backup possible on AIX "Mirror-Pool" environment

TSM does a mklv command to create a logical volume to place a snapshot within a AIX volumegroup. This command uses a mklv on a sinlge hdisk.This is not allowed / possible on AIX mirror-pools. So the backup fails.See Technote 1634886.The mklv coman...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Orphan Snapshot

Detect and Remove Orphan and Non Orphan Snapshots before closing Backup Log.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Dynamic Load Balancing of Data Mover Nodes

Dynamic Load Balancing of Data Mover Nodes.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

q events and select * from events are slow

Queries using q events take a long time. It looks like the table is not index'ed properly. This goes for TSM Server 6 and 7
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Could not backup vmdk bigger than 2TB

Unable to get VM guest saved that has disks bigger than 2 TBgetting the error :ANS2687W The virtual machine 'ITSVCS2' contains one or more disks that exceed the maximum size limit. I know this is a TSM limitation based on a VMware recommendation; ...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Email Settings Field in V3700 GUI won't accept "+" plus in email address

I've attempted to enter the customer's email address in the Email setup in the V3700 GUI, and receive the following error message: CMMVC5711E Not Valid Data. The customers data center team email address starts with a plus character (+). For exampl...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

TSM's snmp subagent should be supported on Linux directly

Alerting and monitoring via Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus (from the ITNM suite) should integrate with TSM server running on Linux directly, but it currently does not. TSM's SNMP subagent requires an extension SNMP-DPI, which only exists on AIX. This requ...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

In-band storage management

In-band storage management access feature, to allow array management through an IO-attached host
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

TSM4VE VMDK 2TB Limit

VMWare supports VMDKs that are larger than 2TB but the latest version of TSM for Virtual Environments does not. This is preventing us from backing up large file and print servers. When is IBM going to support backing up VMDKs larger than 2TB?
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

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