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    TSM VE support for vsphere 5.5

    Since vsphere 5.5 has already been released there is urgent need for support in TSM VE running on Windows.<br />TSM servers are on Linux Redhat 6.x<br />We are using TSM VE 6.4.1 and TSM Storage Manager 6.3 on Linux.<br />Compata...
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Planned for future release

    Node id change because of a shutdown

    When a node in SVC is stopping unexpectedly, not regularly shut down, then the node gets a new node ID. Actually the node is automatically removed from the frame and then added again with a new id. This ruins the numbering system in the frame. Als...
    over 12 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    TSM BA Client support for file backup of data on CSV Volumes on MS Failover Cluster

    BA Client currently does not support backup of files that resides on MS Failover Cluster when using CSV volumes (Clustered Shared Volumes)
    about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

    SNMP Alert for Vdisk Mirroring out-of-sync

    Italian Customer with large environment based on SVC in stretched cluster + GM over 450km is using mirrorwritepriority set to latency. The customer want to receive an SNMP alert when VdiskMirroring goes out-of-sync. Accordingly with Hursley Archit...
    over 12 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    SVC node id changed

    On the SVC GUI interface the node display name has been changed even after a UPS battery change. We need the GUI to keep the names on the list after any hardware operation. Would be great if it worked like the V7000 storage interface. It seems for...
    over 12 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    DP for Exchange GUI QoL enhancement during database recovery

    During recovery of an Exchange database DP for Exchange GUI automatically configures "AllowFileRestore" flag in Exchange for this database.This will allow the database to be overwritten.During recovery user a presented with two dialog windows with...
    about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Not under consideration

    incremantal backup via NDMP

    Since TSM's limitation of doing NDMP backup of filer as full+differential. So if its having feature of adding incremental as one option, so we don't need to waste space by having differential backup as its become so large at one point until u do f...
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

    mmunlinkfileset -f report unmatch error message

    [root@pnsd1 ~]# mmunlinkfileset aggr3 user_scratch -fUnable to quiesce fileset at all nodes.Fileset user_scratch has open files. Specify -f to force unlink. From above output we can see the error is not accurate reflecting customer's issue. They h...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Is a defect

    Request to run TSM Server on Solaris11

    We want you to add Solaris11 as a supported platform for TSM Server.In FUJITSU business negotiations, there are many requests to runTSM Server on Solaris11. However, at present TSM server does not support Solaris11 as a supported platform. For thi...
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Indication for changed data amount between incremental FCs

    Today there is no way to query the differences of the internal OOS bitmaps from the DS8000, but it is valuable request Is it possible to have this indication ?
    over 8 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

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