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lsdumps only displays 500 files

The 'lsdumps' command only lists 500 files.The number of files output is limited internally. Each file is accompanied by a timestamp, and the names of the files along with their timestamps must fit within 20KB. The files selected to list in this c...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

configure TMPDIR for TSM scheduler (dscmcad)

The TSM scheduler uses /tmp or /var/tmp as the TMPDIR for its temporary files. This appears to be hardcoded depending on the version of Unix being used.We are seeing regular cases of schedules being missed because the hardcoded TMPDIR is full when...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

TSM fails taking backups of Informix.

When customer take a backup from TSM for Informix , the backup fails, they checked the problem and informix get locks.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

TDP for Hyper-v vm replication fail.

When using TDP for Hyper-V. VM's are not able to use Microsoft replication thru Hyper-V Manager due to the fact that vm files are changed from VHD to AVHD format.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

TSM for VE improved VApp support in VCloud environment

Allow backup of a VApp and allow restore of an individual VM into the VApp
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

inode number limit

Need to restrict the inode number to be lower than 2^32 . If its greater than that, 32 bit applications are failing complaining file not found.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

additional exclude options from file-level VM backups using "vmbackuptype=file"

Currently on exclude and exclude.dir are supported. Having the ability to exclude drives or filesystems with exclude.fs or exclude.vmdisk would be beneficial
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

SPS Support for A9000 Multisite Configuration

Client is using a multi-site configuration in their A9000's where they are hyperswapped in prod and async replicating to DR. They need support for this configuration within Spectrum Protect Snapshot for snapshot management.
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

V7000 Amber LED warning light turning off before disk has been replaced

Issue we are seeing with the V7000 is that the Amber LED warning light turning off before disk has been replaced.
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Extend 512 Character Filter limit in TSM for VE Backups

The filter limit of 512 Characters is too limiting. In a large environment this limit causes admins to create multiple schedules to accomplish what one schedule should be able to do. Having these multiple schedules causes additional problems such ...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration