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    Add parm to allow some control over the calculation of available space to avoid false positive ANS1311E errors

    Add a parm that could specify the estimated amount of data reduction to use when calculating if the storage pool has sufficient space. so setting this parm to 75 would tell TSM to assume the pending backup is going to get at least a 75% reduction,...
    about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

    Enhance Installation Toolkit Support for Cluster with active usesudowrapper configuration

    We are planing to Implement saveguard vault design with use of saveguard snapshots. One requirement here the cluster must use sudowrapper as a prerequisite to work and beeing secure.The ansible installationtoolkit has currently no support for sudo...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Storage Insights to include DS8 Hostconnect Column on HBA View

    For the IBM DS8 systems, on the Related Resources > Hosts > HBAs view, there are columns for name/status/type/WWPN/IQN/Associated Drives, but the column that would be most helpful is to list the associated host that the HBA login is related to.
    about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Journal Based Backup Identification

    Request is to be able to identify nodes using journal based backups from a query to the Spectrum Protect Server
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    TS4500 mini PC placement

    I had the opportunity to watch the SSRs working on Call Home problem with the TS4500. I would like to suggest an engineering change on the IMC min PC physical placement for consideration. The IMC mini PC is placed at the bottom corner of the end f...
    about 3 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Not under consideration

    domain.vmfull VMdatastore wildcards

    TSM for VE with TSM Client 6.4 allow for automatic discovery and inclusion of virtual machines in FullVM backups by using domain.vmfull dsm.opt option.Option domain.vmfull allows to specify different options in order to include the "right" list of...
    about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    support cephfs with full ACL support

    cephfs is a scalable filesystem with full posix campatibility. The need to support this filesystem with full ACL support is needed.
    about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

    TSM HADR with windows

    Hi,i need a option for dsmserv which will prevent the restart of db2 or a flag whill start db2 with force in a hadr environment parameter. problem: 1. hadr configuration and the primary system went down2. on the standby i could start db2 with star...
    about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Request option for previous SVC GUI behavior to modify characteristics of volumes

    Previously in SVC 7.5 code, the volume characteristics could be edited in the GUI from the properties menu of the volume. This was changed in 7.6 so that modifications (such as a cache mode change) were made available in the GUI in the actions men...
    about 9 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    SP Command builer stand-alone port for windows/linux

    Create a stand-alone or dsmadmc integrated version for windows and/or Linux of the SP Command builder currently integrated in the SP-OC.
    about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

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