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    TSM for VE - exclude

    1. exclude -vm=all-powered-off<br /><br />We are having issues with lot of powered off VM's    being backed. Need to have a global suboption to exclude poweroff vm's.<br /><br />2. recognize the inclexcl file &nbs...
    about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

    Enhance Strowize/SVC GUI "Configure Storage" wizard to show projected Pool Usable Capacity per user selections

    Enhance Strowize/SVC GUI "Configure Storage" wizard to show projected Pool Usable Capacity per user selections, will allow the user to see the resulting Usable Capacity of the Pool prior to its Creation.
    about 13 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

    Issues in IBM Spectrum Protect Operation Center Reporting

    Using IBM Spectrum Protect Operation Center Version 7.1.8.0 The "At-Risk" does not work on archives. It works solely on backups as is indicated by the message "At Risk" (Policy: A backup did not completeduring the configured status interval (by de...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 0 Not under consideration

    Collect the file space information in TSM monitoring and reporting

    Currently the file space (q filespace) information from the TSM server is not being captured in the Monitoring and reporting application. The information that I am needing the most is the file space capacity and the percentage utilized.
    about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Not under consideration

    Export Library Activity from GUI and REST API

    Talked with Jason Peipelman and IBM RAS engineer about this request and they all agreed this is a good idea, not just this product but all library products. This Library Activity is visible on GUI, but customer would like to download this informat...
    over 4 years ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Implement recommission* node in OC

    Missing the possibility to recommission a node or vm with the OC. Only the command decommission is available.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 3 Future consideration

    TSM for VE Restore to Alternate Location Options

    Restoring a VM to an alternate location is lacking sufficient details and options to allow for a prompt and quick restore.1. The drill-down provided goes from data center to ESX host and then to data store. I believe another option to select a clu...
    about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

    Ability to encrypt export media

    TSM based Application Encryption uses the TSM Server database to store encryption keys. It is currently not possible to encrypt export tapes (self-describable media) as there is no documented method to extract the applicable encryption key from th...
    about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Add ability to query virtual disk size at the point of backup from SP client

    APAR IT22561 addresses an issue which causes a failed restore of an individual virtual disk to report success, but there are deeper underlying problems here. As per the APAR text, to recover an individual virtual disk virtual disk once it has been...
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

    Reliability option for when suspension of disk occurs on disk outages

    IBM: Currently when allocating disk space, gpfs only consider the disk status(ready,suspended/to-be-emptied, emptied, replacing, replacement) but not "availability"(up, down, recovering, unrecovered). for "availability", it will impact whether GPF...
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

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