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Support iSCSI connection from TSM/EE to 3584 tape library

Allow the use of the iSCSI protocol to transport SCSI requests and responses over an ip network between a TSM server acting as an iSCSI client, and an automated 3584 tape library. This would allow a Linux-based TSM server built on a VMware virtual...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Using Simultaneous Write Mode it should be possible to avoid inheritance of SWM settings from a previous storage pool

Ability to avoid (disable) that Simultaneous Write Mode (SWM), aka. Autocopy Mode (ACM), is inherited to the next pool from the previous pool when the server during a client store is switching to the next pool in the storage hierarchy.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

Schedule the automated backup in SVC/V7K release 6.4.1.2 and upcoming releases)

Apparently introduced in 6.4.1.2 there has been a change in design so only the superuser can issue the command svcconfig backup -> based on CMVC 148825. this seem to be a fixed schedule, which are executed 1:00 am every day. this request are if...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

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

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