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VM Backup: Need more characters in OPTIONS-Field

For definition of vm-schedulers with more than 512 characters in the options field (def sched ... options='-domain.vmfull="VM=VMNAMEAPP009,VMNAMEAPP009,....." -MODE=IFIncremental' ...) we nee more characters.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

IBM SVC request for path count on mdisks

Hi,we're using XP24000 storage, and LUN's from XP24000 are presented to SVC, where they are used as Mdisk's.Each LUN/Mdisk is presented via 4 different ports on XP24000 storage.However, when checking Mdisk, it only shows 2 available paths (from 1s...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager Support for Oracle-RAC on AIX with GPFS

Support for Oracle-RAC on AIX GPFS Filesystem,with GPFS Mirroring over 2 Metro-Mirrored SVC or the possibility to backout one SVC
almost 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Planned for future release

offload weekly / monthly backups need to have include logs option

The default behaviour for an "offloaded DB2 backup" is to exclude the logs. There isn't an option to override this behaviour.We require an option to override the default behaviour so that we have an option to include logs.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

FCP for DB2 support for PPC Linux

At this time, FCM for DB2 is only available on linux x86_64 and we would like it to be supported on PPC linux.
almost 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

Dynamic Load of DB2 Logger Manager for DB2 log archive Backups

When performing DB2 log archives the DB2 logger preloads the TSM Configuration, any changes made the the archive copy group require a cycle of the DB2 instance. This creates an unnessary outage for a simple archive copygroup change, advise that th...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 3 Not under consideration

Support Configurable Back-End Transfer Size

Allowing customer to configure (GUI or Command Line) the setting of the MAX transfer size for supported Back-end Storage Arrays.
almost 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

Cross platform migration (Solaris/AIX to linux)

X platform migration from Solaris/AIX to linux Primarily looking at being able to go from Unix/Linux to another Unix/Linux platform initially at the TSM 6.x version. There is also interested in migrating from Windows to Linux.Migrations would be e...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Planned for future release

Copy_Only backup (Single Ingest)

The requirement is to avoid multiple client backups of the same data, but allow image copy with different retention policies. In discussions with customer it has been suggested Dave Canan be involved in the technical design spec. Topics such as co...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

The TSM tablespace conversion procedure should be automated

The TSM tablespace conversion procedure should be automated.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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