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    Admin API

    Please document and open the admin api to the server. There seems to be an API which is used eg. by Tivoli Integrated Portal as I can see XML in tcpdumps. Maybe you still use something like SOAP. So providing an WSDL and/or Interfaces to .NET and ...
    almost 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    pmcollector, pmsensor for AIX

    Is it planed to develop "pmsensor, pmcollector" (linux like) programs for AIX ? Is there any possibility to include performance monitoring of GPFS cluster running on AIX to TPC (Spectrum controll) ? thank you
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Minimize impact to DS8K when replacing an VRM

    The customer had to replace failed VRMs in a DS8000 machine. After the VRM replacement and when passing from single CEC to dual CEC the redistibution of cache and NVS caused noticeable service impact. Please see PMH 46510,200,838. The customer wou...
    over 9 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

    Global Mirror with SEV target disks

    SVC should "reset" the volume space to the specified real capacity when a volume is used as a target volume in a GM relationship, like SVC is doing this for flash copy: when you Flash Copy data to a SEV target disk SVC "resets" the target disk, so...
    almost 14 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

    Changing the default path of the Staging directory

    The following technote describes a case in which files stored in the staging directory are deleted:http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21692439 Instead of looking for workarounds, in the form of setting a different location in the dsm...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

    TS7700 forced premigration

    Today premigration of a virtual volume in a TS7700 can be delayed with a storage class setting to delay to some future point in time. However, there is no control currently to prepone premigration or to specify a timeout when premigration has to o...
    over 9 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

    Support for Sony Library ODS-L30M

    Support for Sony optical libraries (Sony ODS-L30M).Increase the support list in optical libraries for Spectrum Protect (TSM)
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    "-all"-Flag for "repairvdiskcopy -resync"

    Enhancement for the command "repairvdisk -resync" with a flag "-all", which automatically includes all vdiskcopies which are not in sync.
    over 9 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Add client backup status, backup files, size, date details for report with dashboard to understand backup failure and success

    Product Tivoli Fastbackup for workstations 7.1.4.0 We are unable to get correct meaning full report on low level for TFB clients.1.We want report with client name, user identity, start date of backup, last backup date, last backup error, successfu...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Not under consideration

    Oracle Database Cloning improvements in FCM

    Two enhancements are requested. 1) Currently FCM requires environment variable ORACLE_HOME to be set in the users environment right after logon. We request that FCM should read this value from /etc/oratab so that we can have a single user for mult...
    about 14 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 4 Planned for future release

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