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Request to confirm a microcode specification of PMIR for DS8880.

On DS8870 R7.3, the following problem has occurred and we heard from PFE/Development that its cause is microcode specification. Therefore, on 2015/05 we have opened FITS MR0513155244 to request the design change, but we do not know its result beca...
almost 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Segregation of roles within the system administrator class to separate Backup Admin tasks from User Admin tasks

I Have found a previous rejected RFE similar to our request below http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=15387 However this was a fairly simple request for RBAC within TSM. What Deutsche Bank require is slightly m...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Provide capability to use custom option and configuration files with the MMC GUI in the SQL TDP v6.4

Re-instatement of the /tsmoptfile and /configfile parameters with the MMC GUI for SQL TDP v6.4 so that the option file and config file can have non-standard names and can be located in non-default folders.These parameters are currently available w...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Planned for future release

Expose node groups in TSM reporting

Expose the node groups and the membership of the nodes in the node groups so reports can be grouped by the node group.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Not under consideration

Expose collocation groups in TSM reporting

Expose the collocation groups and node members hip for reporting purposes.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 4 Not under consideration

Support pureScale DB2 systems with TSM for ERP

TSM for ERP needs to support DB2 pureScale systems with the same features currently supported for non-pureScale systems.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 3 Not under consideration

Add path status monitoring to Monitoring for TSM

We would like to add monitoring of TSM PATH status to Tivoli Monitoring for TSM. There is no such functionality currently.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Planned for future release

Restore Storage Pool does note generate a list of tapes required and in the order needed.

The customer lost the primary storage pool due to a hardware failure. During the Restore Storage Pool process, they were prompted for tape volumes one at a time. This was a very time consuming process. If a list could be generated of the tapes nee...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Exclude.vmdisk to exclude on vmdk name basis

Using INCLUDE.VMDISK and EXCLUDE.VMDISK it is today possible to exculde certain vmdks using the disk label of that particular vmdk, eg. "Hard Disk 2". This is good, but it would be even better if we could include/exclude on the basis of the actual...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Customize e-mail alerts on SVC for only desired data

Problem: Customer would like to customize ALERTS messages sent from SVC clusters, to contacts specified in support User tab. WHY? Customer is using centralized alert notification, which get email notification from SVC and send it to mobile phone v...
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

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