IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    TSM for Virtual Environment and Vmware Site Recovery Manager Place holder VM's

    TSM for virtual Environment is unable to recognize Vmware Site Recovery Manager ‘s Place holder VM's. TSM For VIrtual Envionrment is unable to recognizANS9365E VMware vStorage API error for virtual machine ''. TSM function name : __ns2__CreateSnap...
    almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

    ISP OC Autodeployment should work with TDP installed

    The auto deploy fails if for example a TDP for Oracle is installed.dsmtrace.cpp ( 146): DeployMgr psupdatemgr.cpp(1179): Terminating update manager. Detected installed package(s) 'tivoli.tsm.client.oracle.tools.aix.64bit tivoli.tsm.client.oracle.a...
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    Lack of integration with IBM Spectrum Protect

    Lack of an integration between IBM Spectrum Protect (SP) and IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management (CDM) using Pure Storage. Lack of this functionality is a major road block to deploy/adoption a supported combination of Pure, CDM and SP solution.
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

    Oracle Linux OS support for TSM Data Protection for Oracle

    Client asks about official support for TSM Data Protection for Oracle, installed on Oracle Linux x64
    almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

    Minimum Volume creation size flag

    The ability to set a flag on the SVC that prevents creation of vdisks smaller than the specified size.
    almost 8 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Mirrored Mdisk Group

    Ability to create mirrored MDisk Groups
    almost 12 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Also Implement DAR on TSM Server CLI

    Currently DAR is implemented on the TSM Web Client Interface only. Individual file restores done from the TSM Server CLI do not utilize DAR. This causes additional overhead during a restore process of the entire image being scanned and if large en...
    about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

    SMB Error Message handling changes

    When a user tries to delete a folder via SMB (Windows explorer) served out from a protocol node while another user has an open file in the folder, the action completes without an error being posted that another user has a file open within the fold...
    about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

    File permission - default at 666, change to 644

    The following have permissions set (by default) to 666: /etc/adsm/Nodes/<node_name>/spclicert.crl/etc/adsm/Nodes/<node_name>/spclicert.rdb/etc/adsm/Nodes/<node_name>/spclicert.kdb Setting at 644 works for root user. It is possibl...
    about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Is a defect

    IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshots 4.1.6 support VMware 6.5

    The customer HDI Seguros have IBM FlashSystem 7200 and IBM Spectrum control. They need create snapshots with an schedule with retentions. So, they need to use IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshots for this Use case. They Have VMware 6.5 and Oracle DB.
    about 4 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

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