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    Spectrum Discover Reporting

    Spectrum Discover is a powerful and useful tool, however, the reporting capability needs to match the product capability.
    about 4 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Not under consideration

    SVC Vdisk Default SCSI ID

    When you create a new Vdisk and map it to a host the SCSI id 0 shoud not be open for mapping by default. Like the XIV, SCSI ID0 is reserved for boot from SAN and like the XIV iyou have to manually enable SCSI 0 to put a LUN on it. Please update th...
    over 12 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 6 Not under consideration

    backom with dedup_device

    Hi, there is no dedup_device Support with backom (DP for ERP). Thus, there is currently no capability to add the dedup option to the DB2 command when using backom. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21627065 I think we Need this.
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 2 Not under consideration

    Solaris x86 TSM Client support beyond version 6.2.5

    The latest version available of Solaris x86 TSM Client is 6.2.5To date, no plans have been announced to include the Solaris x86 version in future client releases. We are concerned that we will bw unable to backup a large number of x86 Solaris serv...
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

    TSM Online Indexreorg with temporary allocated filesystem

    High end customers using TSM with SSD for DB directories and running 7x24 are very likely to run into the following situation: because SSD space is very expensive, it is not always possible to permanently attach hundreds of GBs to each TSM instanc...
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Management IP address failover on eth port failure

    IBM V7000 7.1.0.2Problem description:We have V7000 controller with configured eth1 port on both nodes. Also Service IP is configured on those ethernet ports.During the test we simulate ethernet port failure with disconnecting ethernet cable from c...
    over 12 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Set a Throughput occupancy threshold for TS7700

    The client wants the TS7700 to have the option to parameterize a Threshold of Throughput, to monitor its occupancy, and when it exceeds the threshold send a message to the system.
    over 8 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 3 Not under consideration

    TSM for VE - exclude

    1. exclude -vm=all-powered-off<br /><br />We are having issues with lot of powered off VM's    being backed. Need to have a global suboption to exclude poweroff vm's.<br /><br />2. recognize the inclexcl file &nbs...
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

    Add an option to disable Client Option Set Replication

    Please add an option to allow TSM admins to disable the replication of Client Option Sets during a REPLICATE NODE operation, or to prevent the generation of ANR1946W messages (or perhaps only an information message).
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    Enhance Strowize/SVC GUI "Configure Storage" wizard to show projected Pool Usable Capacity per user selections

    Enhance Strowize/SVC GUI "Configure Storage" wizard to show projected Pool Usable Capacity per user selections, will allow the user to see the resulting Usable Capacity of the Pool prior to its Creation.
    over 12 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

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