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Enhancement of Data Protection for SAP HANA setup script

Hello, after installing data protection client for HANA v7.1.3.1 it is required to run following configuration script: /opt/tivoli/tsm/tdp_hana/setup.sh Script generates initSID.utl file, creates the "TSM" HDBKEYSTORE key and verifies the password...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 0 Not under consideration

IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager Support on AIX with GPFS

Flash Copy Manager to support GPFS file system on AIX for Oracle Database
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

snapdiff to update last backup fields in filespace data

Could you please update the TSM snapdiff client to update the lastbackup information of filespaces when a "query filespace f=d" is issued. This would be the obvious behaviour and would be inline with the documented meaning of the columns This limi...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

V9000 - stopfcconsistgrp command with force option cancelled flash-copy tasks on another consistency group !

Our V9000 All Flash Array has two flash-copy consistency groups. 1. Used for daily backups ( Oracle hot backups )2. Used for a QA refresh. On 8/4/2016, we did a QA refresh of 14TB using consistency group 2. copyrate was set to 50, we estimated it ...
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Request for improvement of AIX multipath driver (SDDPCM)

The SDDPCM is coded for multiple storage paths connected to a single host adapter. For consistent workload, we require a single adapter be mapped to a single storage port. The SDDpcm does not see this as a balanced implementation, and teh select c...
over 8 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Conseil Departemental de la Gironde

Our Client want to delete directory from backup, the directory is not deleted with the command del backup even for active / inactive. Review the documentation and the data knowledge : It is not possible to delete the directories in the GUI.
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Ability to setup SVC cache prefetch on a per volume basis.

When there is a need to disable cache prefetch, the only option available today is setting a parameter that takes effect accross the entire system (cluster). There are cases where cache prefetch is not beneficial (examples: colliding (overlapping)...
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Create Hyperswap with GUI

When creating Hyperswap volumes with the GUI only the sourcevolume get a speaking name. The auxilary copy and the Changevolumes are named by defaults (vdiskXX). It would be more helpful to have the same name with suffixes as the sourcevolume has.
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Ability to auto-restart SVC Global/Metro Mirror relationships.

When a problem occurs that leads to either a SVC 1720 or 1920 error, the Global/Metro Mirror relationships automatically stops. The options available today to deal with this case is either to manually restart the relationships or develop and imple...
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Reduce TSM4VE foot print in backup infrastructure with StorageAgent for vCenter

As of now TSM for VE component needs a separate system within the VM infrastructure or outside of it to setup a Data Mover node to help facilitate the Virtual Machine data movement. This enhancement request is to change the TSM for VE code and set...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

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