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TDP for VE

TDP For VE is trying to make backup VMWARE machines, that are not online.We have 2 DataCenter using SRM.this is a horrible situation to manage on a large environment.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Replication on Migration

Parameter for Storagepools to have a replication on migration instead of copy on migration.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Not under consideration

enhanced stretch cluster with only one Iogrp

Add process that a single node is able to update both sites in an enhanced stretched Cluster.This would enable support for an enhanced stretched cluster with only one IOgrp.
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

limitation in TSM Server database should map POSIX standard

The limitation of different columns length in the TSM Server DB2 database does not match the limitation in reality. For example: PATH_MAX or MAX_PATH length according to OS POSIX standard is 4096 characters; while in db2 it is set to 1025 for FILE...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Option "Relable Scratch" for ACSLS Library

We use an Fujitsu Eternus Centricstore as an ACSLS Library, but with an ACSLS Library it is not possible to "relable" the Logical Volumes when they go to "Scratch" Status and to free up Space on the physical Tapes.To provide this at the Moment you...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Include text field in TSM client GUI to type path

In PMR 70622,100,838 we had the problem that using webclient to restore a group of files having selected PIT option before is not possible because an intermediate subdirectory had not an active version on that date. Here is an example: If there wa...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Request for TSM 6.3.4 support with ACSLS on Oracle Linux

Los Alamos National Laboratory uses Oracle's ACSLS tape library manager with its TSM system. LANL wishes to upgrade to ACSLS 8.3, which runs exclusively on Oracle Linux. LANL is requesting that TSM 6.3.4+ be officially tested/supported for use wit...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Need to be able to trace GPFS with small overhead

The available trace feature of GPFS requires lots of system resource, to be able to enable such trace on a production system, a light weight trace option is required.
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

BPA

ANS2687W The virtual machine 'SVBMFIL01' contains one or more disks that exceed the maximum size limit (2TB). Specify the '-VMSKIPMAXVMDKS=yes' option to exclude these disks from the backup. making snapshot backup
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

TSM Scratch volume selection for SCSI type libraries

1. When a tape is checked out, then checked back in, the mount count should not be reset. The count should only be set to zero when a new tape is labeled into the library or forced to zero by options. 2. Add an option to the check in command to fo...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

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