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    Tivoli Flashcopy Manager support for DS8K Space Efficient Flashcopy

    Client is in a Banking industry and a large customer of TSM and DS8K deployed site.( with several hundred TBs )The bank wishes to consider using FCM with Oracle / DB on AIX / Solaris Platform with DS8K SE Flashcopy Currently, FCM does not support ...
    over 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration

    TSM VE Support - include option to specify a DATACENTER in option file

    There currently is no include option to specify a DATACENTER. Please add it
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

    Improve the DRP extraction

    DR plan scripts is based on the assumption that TSM is recovered to the original TSM server system where the group, the user who owns the instance, the directories and the instance already exist.I think it is good to add commands to check if the g...
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

    Multi-tenancy: Add the feature to show only the resources belonging to the a specific RG.

    Add the feature to show only the resources belonging to the an specific RG.
    almost 8 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

    Increase the maximum number of partnerships between the local and remote SVC/V7/V9

    Client has a V7 and (2) V9s that replicate to a single V7 in DR. They need to add an additional V9 in prod and want to replicate it to the same V7 in DR. To accomplish this Client needs IBM to increase the maximum number of partnerships between th...
    almost 8 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    IBM Tape Device Driver for LTO - suppress internal speed control for big tape copy operations

    Performance Problems with TSM Tape to Tape Workloads on IBM LTO Drives at the customer Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ)The customer openend the PMR 013FP4Y,724 on this case (the format doesn't fit the PMR ID field in this form).
    almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

    SPP 10.1.1 removed ability for user to change their own password?

    In SPP 10.1.1, it appears a natively defined user is not able to change their own password which is a change from previous version of 10.1.0.
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    DS8000 GUI should show degraded status, if a redundand compounent is down or under rebuild

    The DS8000 is built with a lot of redundancy in it. To prevent drive failures to cause a data loss situation, RAID-6 has been chosen for protection. Customer wants to get a simple information or status, if the machine is in a 'degraded status' by ...
    almost 8 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

    TSSC automated FTP offload of configuration data

    System: IBM TS3000 System Console The IBM TSSC is being used as call home device and for event logging of TS3500 events from multiple libraries. An audit requirement is that we are making regular backups of the TSSC configuration information and t...
    almost 8 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 3 Not under consideration

    Prevent reorg of BF_SUPER_AGGREGATES to kill restore tasks

    Whenever a reorg of BF_SUPER_AGGREGATES finishes, restore of SQL data fails. Disabling reorg for this DB is not practical, since restore tasks are starting up 24/7, and the tsm admin does not know when. Some other tool must be present to prevent t...
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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