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    Performance Monitoring Via GUI

    In the previous DS3/4/5000 range, there was a feature showing real time the performance of each LUN. I would like to see this feature in the Storwize code. This would help with troubleshooting performance issues with out having IBM support getting...
    about 11 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

    FCM VMware: Provide Enahanced Repporting through FCM VMware CLI

    Expand on fcmcli commands to produce a high-level backup summary report which includes:Backup job description (or name from GUI) Success/failure Date of backup Source datastores Source volumes Target volumes
    about 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

    Add Support FlashCopy Backup and Clone Presets

    The FlashCopy function in Spectrum Virtualize offers backup and clone functions that SCDM currently doesnt support it would be great to have the ability to create SLAs supporting FlashCopy backup and clone in SCDM to add to FlashCopy NoCopy and Fl...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect O.C. http protocol for SSL offload device

    We use a proxy for SSL security, so it is preferable for us to configure the proxy for http protocol instead of https. But IBM stopped supporting http protocol in TSM Operations Center. We would like to have http available for Operation Center again.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Not under consideration

    No image backup possible on AIX "Mirror-Pool" environment

    TSM does a mklv command to create a logical volume to place a snapshot within a AIX volumegroup. This command uses a mklv on a sinlge hdisk.This is not allowed / possible on AIX mirror-pools. So the backup fails.See Technote 1634886.The mklv coman...
    about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

    Orphan Snapshot

    Detect and Remove Orphan and Non Orphan Snapshots before closing Backup Log.
    about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

    Dynamic Load Balancing of Data Mover Nodes

    Dynamic Load Balancing of Data Mover Nodes.
    about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

    q events and select * from events are slow

    Queries using q events take a long time. It looks like the table is not index'ed properly. This goes for TSM Server 6 and 7
    about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Could not backup vmdk bigger than 2TB

    Unable to get VM guest saved that has disks bigger than 2 TBgetting the error :ANS2687W The virtual machine 'ITSVCS2' contains one or more disks that exceed the maximum size limit. I know this is a TSM limitation based on a VMware recommendation; ...
    about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Control with DFSMS Storage Group Awareness

    Request for Thin Provisioning Monitoring Interface that can report based on DFSMS (Storage Group). Please refer to RFE 137862 for additional detail.
    over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Future consideration

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