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ICStore integrated in SVC

Requested by Customer Daimler and JCI we need an additional tier in the SVC to move data to the cloud
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

migrate vdisk to tier

We want to be able to pin a vdisk's extents to a particular tier but retain easy tier 3's performance-based balancing within the tier.
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

Can IBM repackage the C++ installer to install to the same folder as TSM along with the TSM Client install

Can IBM repackage the C++ installer to install to the same folder as TSM along with the TSM Client install?
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Not under consideration

TSM OC DRM Support

The Administration Center is aging and outdated. The Admin Center is only supported in UNSUPPORTED browsers (Firefox 3.6) or outdated browsers (IE 8). The Operations Center looks to be its replacement. Functionality of the OC however is very lacki...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Make the time interval for "ANR3654W Inventory file expiration processing did not run in the previous 24 hours" configurable

The message ANR3654W is shown even if an expire inventory schedule was executed every day at 4pm, because the detailed time frame including seconds is checked for the message. The request is either check not on detailed second (maybe a minute or 5...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

FCM4UNIX: multiple occurrences of DATABASE_BACKUP_INCREMENTEL_LEVEL incl. USE_AT clause in FCM profile required

Hi Tivoli :-) For incremental level Oracle (native) backups the DATABASE_BACKUP_INCREMENTAL_LEVEL statement must be usable multiple times like the INCREMENTAL_LEVEL statement for SAP/Oracle backups: INCREMENTAL_LEVELThis parameter is only for use ...
almost 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

TSM System State incremental backups

If technically possible, please consider adding additional incremental forever capability to system state backups. Currently it is my understanding that only objects included with the system writer are able to use a an incremental strategy. Object...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Dilligent tsm integration

Hi, i think it would be very nice to have a better dilligent tsm integration. It should be very nice to have client side deduplication with dilligent as primary stgp pools.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Include ulimit requirements to TSM init script

During reboot of linux systems, init scripts inherits kernel default settings for open files (ulimit -n).    These will be too small, and give warnings in tsm actlog.    The init script does not read values from sysctl or limit...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Is a defect

Monitoring SVC Performance requires Administrator rights

Before you can download performance statistic files for all nodes from the config node, you have top copy them first from the other nodes to the config node.This can only be done with the command “svctask cpdumps” that require Administrator rights...
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

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