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    Ability to have -vmfolder include sub-folders

    In a large organisation, vmware and tsm will have different people administering them. The ability to include sub-folders would allow more flexibility.
    about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Not under consideration

    mmunlinkfileset -f report unmatch error message

    [root@pnsd1 ~]# mmunlinkfileset aggr3 user_scratch -fUnable to quiesce fileset at all nodes.Fileset user_scratch has open files. Specify -f to force unlink.From above output we can see the error is not accurate reflecting customer's issue. They ha...
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Is a defect

    Indication for changed data amount between incremental FCs

    Today there is no way to query the differences of the internal OOS bitmaps from the DS8000, but it is valuable request Is it possible to have this indication ?
    almost 9 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

    Adding a time out for server migration

    Dear SP development team, We have been using TSM for decades long since v5.x and upgraded our TSM server to V8.1.10 last year. However, the new release v8.1 has not changed the behavior during migration: As we noticed some migration process hang t...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Set a Throughput occupancy threshold for TS7700

    The client wants the TS7700 to have the option to parameterize a Threshold of Throughput, to monitor its occupancy, and when it exceeds the threshold send a message to the system.
    almost 9 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 3 Not under consideration

    backport (AIX) 8.1.14.x server fixes to 8.1.13.x

    There are a number of fixes included in Spectrum Protect server 8.1.14.0 (plus some DB2 security fixes just postponed to 8.1.14.100). However, 8.1.14.x drops support for AIX 7.1. Having to also upgrade (still supported) AIX 7.1 to AIX 7.2 or 7.3 j...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    SPP: use OpenJDK for vSnap VADP Proxy

    Currently SPP installs openJDK pkg during installation and upgrade phase. However Oracle Java is still beign used for VADP proxy of vSNAP server. Due to licensing we would appreciate if only one Java has been used.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Is a defect

    Please Expand the Maximum value for HSMMAXRECALLTAPEDRIVES

    The maximum value for HSMMAXRECALLTAPEDRIVES is too low to use. I wish the maximum value can be set up to 128.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Future consideration

    Include preferred node ID in standard CLI-listing of all vDisks

    Can we include the preferred node ID in the standard listing about all vDisks in the SVC cluster, which can be requested via CLI command -lsvdisk ? The averall listing should include this as standard output, but it could be de-selected by using fi...
    over 13 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    TDP support for Microsoft SQL Server Express

    We have several customer with a mix of Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008/2012 and editions express, standard and enterprise.To keep it simple we are using tdp to backup the sql servers. Sadly SQL Server Express isn't supported.It looks like the backu...
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

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