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Request for improvement of AIX multipath driver (SDDPCM)

Since the customer is executing online applications for the train ticket reservation system which would abend transactions with 5 seconds I/O timeout in case that any H/W failure triggers a path failover, the following request is raised from the c...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

TSM backup support for EMC Greenplum

EMC Greenplum is big data appliance and customer need it to protect with TSM. I don't see any function which talk about such backups. So I am looking for document or reference that TSM can backup Greenplum data.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

FCM For VMware Ver 3.2.0.2 - Improvement to Backup Status Report

FCM reports a false status for virtual machines when checked by generating a backup status report using the Reports > Backup Status Option with FCM GUI. With FCM for VMware 3.2.0.2 onwards FCM functionality has been improved to continue the bac...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration

Restore virtual machine under new name or on another Hyper-V host

System: TSM BA Client 7.1Actor: Backup Administrator Description: Our team uses TSM BA Client for backup Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines. Backups seems to be ok but we cannot restore virtual machine under new name or on another Hyper-V host.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

SVC node reboot call-home should not be Sev3 by default and should retrieve asserts from node's IPMI card

Currently, Error ID 9053 "Node has been missing for 30 minutes" and Error Code 1195 "Node has been offline for 30 minutes" generate a Severity 3 (low priority) PMR through call-home, and do not give any additional details. In the customer's case (...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Ability to specify timestamp in archival retrieve with -filelist

Would like the ability to batch-retrieve specific versions of archived files. Using -filelist or some other method, not picky about how, as long as it can be handled in a batch process with no input from humans. We know the date stamp on the exact...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

how to identify "local" nodes in "q n"

e need to list only "normal" nodes on a server that also acts as a replication target. "Q Node" shows all nodes, i could not find a parameter to filter for local nodes only. How can we list local nodes only, for example to check if these nodes are...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Restart Exchange 2010 backup session automatically

When the TDP for Exchange client password expires during the Exchange 2010 full backup running period, the backup sesion failed and can not be restarted as before (Exchange 2003 Lagacy). This caused our TSM admins have to rerun the Exchange 2010 f...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Not under consideration

Delete selective export vol from volhist

Currently if i make mistake and create an export node with wrong domain, i need to delete node to turn the tape back to scratch. There is no way currently to selectively remove an bad export vol from a list of valid export nodes.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Request simple and easy network distribution of FixPack as like as Windows update.

Request simple and easy network distribution of FixPack as like as ARCserve which do it automatically. Also using the DR transfer function, requires upgrade of the transfer source after upgrading the destination. That's really bothersome and need ...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack 2 Not under consideration

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