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    SCDM 3-site replication target support

    on FS storage when a 3-site replication is setup, SCDM can not do any action on the 3-site replication target volume
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Support Metro Mirror (or better all Copy Services) for LUNs up to 16 TiB

    Currently DS8880 officially supports Copy Services (Flashcopy and PPRC) for volumes up to 2 TiB.IBM can support volumes up to 4TiB replicated by Copy Services submitting a SCORE RPQ.But today big LUN's in Open environments, particularly in virtual...
    over 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

    Make it possible to set Read permission for the secondary volume of the Metro Mirror in CKD format and enable permission of b

    MUFG Bank, previously it was BTMU, is planning to improve fault tolerance in the zLinux DB environment, and for that reason Mirroring Contoroller which is the function of Fujitsu DB Symfoware Server plans to cope with server failure as well as sto...
    over 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

    vDisk Protection in a DTA Snapshot environment

    With vdisk_protection_time and vdisk_protection_enabled, two parameters are provided in SVC and Storwize to prevent accidental deletion of a disc. Unfortunately, this function is unusable if additional products dynamically create and delete vDisk....
    over 7 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environment support availability for vSphere 6.7

    When wil be available support for vsèphere vcenter 6.7 ? vCenter plugin is not working on version 6.7
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    Adding a time out for server migration

    Dear SP development team, We have been using TSM for decades long since v5.x and upgraded our TSM server to V8.1.10 last year. However, the new release v8.1 has not changed the behavior during migration: As we noticed some migration process hang t...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    vdismirror state properties

    GUI don't show the state of the copyprocess of any vdiskmirror.The lsvdisk shows the state of each copy as sync yes/no. GUI only states online (or offline).This information is important for SVC stretched cluster operations.
    over 11 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Add tdp client for MSSQL on linux

    TDP for MSSQL needed on Linux systems
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

    Avoid HSM recalls into GPFS snapshots when files are deleted in the live FS

    When a migrated file is part of a GPFS snapshot and the file is deleted, the Tivoli HSM client is sent a DMAPI event and recalls the file into the snapshot..This behaviour is undesired especially in SOBAR usage scenarios (see Use Case below).Inste...
    over 11 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

    Individual file backup/restore of system files in W2K8 and W2012

    TSM 6.4 running on Windows 2008 R2 Standard. Effective with Windows Vista and higher (including Windows 2008), files that are identified as "System" files by Windows are automatically excluded from the filesystem backup. The files are backed up on...
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

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