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Alerts for overdriving I/O on I/O groups, mdisks, and I/O ports

User study with internal IBM GTS found that users need alerts for overdriving I/O on I/O groups, mdisks, and I/O ports.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Show how much storage a host has

adding "Capacity" field to host properties to show how much storage a given host has on this system
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

provide tsm sysback support for aix vios servers

we would like to see tivoli tsm sysback support so we could backup/restore aix vios servers
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

Support for installing TSM EE 7.1 on RHEL5

Add ability to install/upgrade TSM EE v7.1 on RHEL5.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Exclude Objects from Systemstate Backup

User should be able to exclude files from backup even if they belong to the Systemstate.Missing Systemstate files should not create errormessages and/or returncodes when excluded by the user. User should be able to define a List of errors and warn...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Tivoli Storage FCM integration with Veeam B&R

Veeam has got a strong integration with HP storage (3PAR and LeftHand) as in this doc http://www.ea-data.com/HP_StoreOnce.pdf and on VB&R release notes: http://www.veeam.com/veeam_backup_7_0_release_notes_rn.pdf Probably this integration is on...
almost 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

allowing include file from command line

dsmc does not allow to specify an include file from the command line.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

SVC - increased Mdisk size support EMC storage arrays

Customer request for support for >2TB Volumes from EMC Storage arrays. including support for VNX2 storage platform.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Windows 2012R2 support voor TDP for MS SQL

What is the roadmap vor TSM TDP for MSSQL to support Windows 2012R2? The current version supports up to Windows 2012. (TSM TDP for MS SQL 7.1)
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

dsmreconcileGPFS.pl modification request

The dsmreconcileGPFS.pl script will fill up the /var filesystem during the sort process, in spite of there being more than 1GB available and I am using the "-tmpdir=" option.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 2 Is a defect