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QUERY VOLHISTORY - search by volume_name

It would be nice to be able to query the volume history file for records relating to a specific volume name.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

CASE ID: RCMS 0193FP7,866 - V7000 (TBW) What is the TBW (Total Bytes Written) Value on the SSD on V7000

We require assistance for the V7000 Enterprise SSD MLC devices e.g V7000 - 2076 3504 - 300GB 2.5 SSD (E-MLC) SAS Is there a GUI or command line sequence which will show the current value of TBW for a given device. Otherwise we have no idea of when...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

TSM - Individual Accountability (SYS5013)

Improve Userid security/ individual accountability in IBM Storage Devices
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Possible data loss

The customer, don't understand why a 1691 error, with possibledata loss, only should be reported as a Warning and not as an Error.Think this is a major design failure and should be corrected in a future code level...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Physical Tape Libraries and Drives (SYS4998)

Improve Userid security/ individual accountability in IBM Storage Devices
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

TSM TDP for Database restore support for MSSQL with Change Data Capture (CDC)

Support for restoring a MSSQL database with Change Data Capture (CDC) enabled to a different server, and keep CDC enabled after restore.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

Encrypted NDMP backups

Support of encrypting storage pools used for NDMP backups.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Flash Copy cold backup for Oracle while running in NOARCHIVELOG mode

We have several Oracle databases running in NOARCHIVELOG mode that we need to perform a cold backup on via flash copy manager. Oracle said this is a supported operation but Flash Copy Manager looks to see if Oracle is running in Archive mode or no...
almost 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

devclass with new nocheck parameter

Hi, I need a library or devclass parameter which will override the necessary volume mount (and the label check) on the server in a storage agent environment. I would be very nice to install a virtual central tsm server without san and storage agen...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

capacity calculation with file pool and private volumes

Hi, i need a devclass file parameter which will influence the calculation of free space in file pools. I implement file pools with private volumes only. The maxscratch parameter is null. It works very fine but the space calculation is very bad. Th...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

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