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    Multiple COPY backup types for TDP for SQL

    Currently there is one database backup type for daily backups (full/differential) and one for copy backups. DBAs often require backups to be held for other retentions, and this currently can only be done by creating multiple TSM nodes. Additionall...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

    Command required to terminate tape optimization recall

    No command is available to terminate a tape optimization recall(TOR).Now you need to invoke "ctrl+c" if you have access to the shell in which the dsmrecall is running, or search its process ID and issue "kill SIGTERM". dsmq + dsmrm can be used for...
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Future consideration

    Need a function displaying the recalls optimized for tape access

    Currently you are not able to see which file is being recalled in case of tape optimization recall(TOR).The dsmq command is not applicable to TOR.
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Not under consideration

    TS4500 access when LDAP enabled

    TS4500 supports LDAP. It requires LDAP group with admin privileges to be created in Library as well as LDAP domain. After LDAP group creation and integrating access with LDAP the library is not accessible via local accounts. JPMC require both acce...
    over 8 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    Enhancement to OC when removing monitored server

    Removing a spoke from hub causes error when custom report is defined for removed server. It would be useful to inform user about this or disable the report automatically. It would also be useful to be able to remove spoke from hub via OC.
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    Enable assignment of volume extents to a specific tier level within an easy tier hybrid pool

    Can you enable that all extents of a specific volume can be assigned to a specific tier level within an easy tier hybrid pool configuration ? Example: hybrid pool contents of 3000 GB Flash Tier and 50000 GB Enterprise tier. Create new volume and a...
    over 11 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Out of space alert/warning from healthchecker should repeat

    Storage Insights Healthchecker for FlashSystems monitors both effective and physical capacity utilization and generates a warning alert if the capacity usage exceeds 80%. However this warning is then not generated again until the capacity utilizat...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

    Access DB2 with Python

    How to connect to DB2 Database with or via a python script?
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Not under consideration

    TSM q proc command should show the node name or volume name which is processing

    Whe the copy process for storagepool is running, i have no information which node is processing. I can happen, that 1 of x copy process is running much longer then other. The reason is, that on disk pool the copy process is working on node. It can...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    SRA - unmap source volumes from hosts during failover

    source volumes are only unmapped from the hosts during SRM "reprotect" operation instead of during "failover" operation
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

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