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TSM-Server Support for ONTAP NDMP CAB Feature

NetApp offers since Clustered ONTAP(cDOT) 8.2 the NDMP Feature CAB (Cluster Aware Backup). Data Volume movements within a ONTAP Cluster (which may consist of currently up to 24 Storage Controllers; by "Vol Move" command) is an liked Feature for al...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

SVC GMCV single shot mode

Currently the Global Mirror with Change Volumes is designed to be a continuous replication technology.Customer have brought up the suggestion that the underlying implementation could actually also be used for Snapshot based backups that will be tr...
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Network Virtualization Fusion

In telecommunications industry we cannot use standard virtualization with Fusion HCI. This will open us a new market segment
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 3 Not under consideration

Users should not be able to view every other users' filespaces

Currently, any authorised user of TSM can view the list of filespaces owned by any other user (provided that user is running on the same platform) by giving the "fromnode" argument to 'query filespace' in dsmc, for instance:> q fi -fromnode="my...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Need of dsmadmc command to query "SET ACCESS" grants

I would like to have the possibility to query "SET ACCESS" grants for all nodes and users from dsmadmc client like the single client user can do by dsmc client and command "QUERY ACCESS" for its own grants. I can do this kind of query connecting d...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

Build 3390 with a track size 64K or larger.

Currently 3390 has a track size around 54Kb. It would be great to have a track 64Kb to write larger records in VSAM. We have a need in our Medical Record System stores several procedure codes and we are always running out of space in the record. I...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

possibility to influence SVC quorum promotion

We would like to have the possibility to influence on which site the disc quorum will be promoted to active, once all IP quorum are not eligible quorum anymore.
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Not under consideration

Administracion DS8K interactividad entre GUI y CLI

El cliente tiene la necesidad de interactuar entre comando de linea CLI y interfaz grafica GUI, tanto via software de la cambia como via CSM. Se solicita que la cabina autorefresque cada cierto tiempo para que los cambios realizados via CLI se vea...
over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Separate expiration of decommissioned nodes

When having many decommissioned nodes the expire inventory process tend to run for a very long time (more then 24 hrs). This upset the normal housholding tasks in administrative schedules. Suggest expiration of decommissioned nodes are run in a se...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect for VE - "Wrong" Platform Name for Node using SP BA Client on Datamover server

When we use Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environment to back VMWare Virtual Machines we have "Spectrum Protect for VE" and "Spectrum Protect BA client" installed on the same machine. To backup VMs we create Data Mover node name DATAMOVER_NAME . Th...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

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