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    TSM Operation Center features

    The Operations Center for TSM needs some updates to become really useful:s. attached file
    almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 4 Not under consideration

    Flash Copy Manager support for Solaris 11

    Flash Copy Manager is supported for Solaris 10.x, but not for Solaris 11.x
    almost 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

    TSM Client retrieval for AIX OS

    Hello, We have opened the above PMR requensting a way to obtain logfiles from Operation Center 7.1.1.We have installed the Client Management Services plugin onto WIndows servers and it seemed to work.We want to execute the same operation for AIX b...
    almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

    Role Based Access to SVC Administrative Functions

    Since the SVC GUI is now calling CLI commands to the SVC cluster, it would be nice to have the ability on a user for user basis to restrict the commands that a user is able to execute on a command for command basis. This function could be part of ...
    almost 12 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Enhancement of SVC cache destage event logging

    When a cache destage takes place in the SVC, an event is logged within the SVC. It is also possible to generate an alerting-mail by such an event. Requests here is to enhance this event message in the SVC, that it is possible to identify the volum...
    almost 12 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Not under consideration

    V7000 needs more flexible cache allocation options

    The caching algorithm does not have enough flexibility in assigning cache to storage pools. I would like to see selectable options: 1) Current (equal percent across storage pools) 2) Percentage based on amount of storage in the storage pool vs ove...
    almost 12 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    TS7700 reports compared to ORACLE STK reports.

    There are some kinds of reports from ORACLE STK solution, that customer frequently use to monitor VSM usage and management. They asked us to evaluate having similar reports to:1. Identify all logical tapes in use, and detail where we have replicat...
    almost 12 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 4 Not under consideration

    Full synthetic backups

    To be able to create full synthetic backups without the need of performing full backups. Other competitors do it so why not TSM
    almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Not under consideration

    configure Tape drive Cleaning Frequency after written TB or used time instead of "as needed" or "999MB"

    The default available Cleaning Frequency managed by TSM is restricted to 999GBSince LTO the recommended Frequency is based on working (write) hours for about 100hr or TB of written Data.For HP Drives it is recommended to clean every 100 R/W-hours....
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    HOST Free SAN based data transfer

    At present, TSM for SAN allows for a TSM Server free data transfer by mapping Tape drives to the client server. The data is then read in from the Disk subsystem via the host HBAs, and then read out to the Tape drives via the host HBAs dedicated to...
    almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 2 Not under consideration

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