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    This is info is related to IBM Spectrum RTM tool license usage. Currently we could only able to monitor Lmstat and RLM license usage via RTM monitoring toll. Here my request is we need to be added all the types of license daemon services and need to be fetch license usages via RTM tool.

    Because currently I could not able to add this Lsdyna and Matlab license server information and could not able to fetch this license usage. In case if we add this option, then LSF administrator and uses will get more gain. Currently we could only ...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Needs more information

    Reporting in TSM Operations Center

    Given that TSM Operations Center is the direct replacement to the no longer maintained Administration Center, it would be nice to incorporate the Tivoli Common Reporting features into the TSM Operations Center.
    almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 4 Not under consideration

    DB2 problems are not reported to TSM

    see also 36996,033,724. here the TSM server crashed hours after the first error occurrence. No warnings in actlog. thats not acceptable. DIA8411C A file "S0035583.LOG" could not be found.DIA8312C Disk was full.
    almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    SVC Audit Log Only Viewable for Privileged User

    Currently the audit log can be viewed/downloaded by a ‘monitor' level accountThe audit requirement is that this information should only be accessible by a privileged (admin) account or an auditor level account as per DS8000Applied to SVC and V7000
    almost 12 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    SVC Configurable SNMP Alerts

    Repeat SNMP alerts for errors not fixed within a given window should be configurable
    almost 12 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Increase overview on status of VM backup for administrators

    When viewing status for protection of VM backup in Spectrum Protect for Virtual Enviorments, whether in OC or in WebClient we should show what type of backup was successful. Did backup success quiesced or not, is it Microsoft VSS, or VMDDK, or cra...
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Scale ECE - Need quota feature to support limiting the resource usage on different storage pools

    In more and more projects, we are delivering GPFS file systems with multiple storage pools for teiring. And our customers keep asking for quota limitation of each user/group/fileset on different storage pools, because different pools have differen...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Protect should have an oracle agent that replaces RMAN entirely, so proper object metadata can be handled internally, allow proper expeiration, retsets, etc.

    Spectrum Protect has long been plagued by retention problems with Oracle backups. RMAN owns all of the metadata, and keeping this in sync requires sync tools, etc. In large environments, often the DBA team and the Backup team are separated. This l...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

    Fusion HCI Regional DR with Scale protocol instead of NFSv3

    Using NFSv3 across WAN links can be impossible when customers are using IP renaming technology (via VIP and WIPs). The hard dependency on NFSv3 for AFM-DR (regional DR) has been lifted by the Scale team as documented here: https://www.ibm.com/docs...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Not under consideration

    TSM platform mgration

    We're asking for a simplified procedure apt to migrate a TSM server from Unix to Windows and vice-versa .Export-import node can be cumbersome in many situation.
    almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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