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    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

    Add an option to disable Client Option Set Replication

    Please add an option to allow TSM admins to disable the replication of Client Option Sets during a REPLICATE NODE operation, or to prevent the generation of ANR1946W messages (or perhaps only an information message).
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    allow non default dsm.opt and tdpexch.cfg file for remote management

    It is possible to configure the MMC GUI on Exchange server to use non default dsm.opt and tdpexch.cfg files. Managing backup from a non Exchange server is not possible if the Exchange server is configured with non default dsm.opt and tdpexch.cfg.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Not under consideration

    Parallelise mmgetpdisktopology checks

    In a recent install carried out by an IBM engineer several steps repeately invoked mmgetpdisktopology to check drive attributes. This queries each drive one by one which each drive query taking around just over a second. These were seen in the for...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    TSM currently can recognized different file systems types. I woud like TSM by default to be able to recognize GFS2 file syste

    TSM need to be able to recognize GFS2 file systems like it does with any other file system type seen by TSM. When TSM is installed and configured it should be able to see this file system with out any manually intervention. It should be a native s...
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

    Documentation update regarding Deduplication enabled Storage Pools using FILE Device Class type

    Documentation update referencing the importance of proper storage pool "DATAFormat" type for DEDUPLICATION enabled SEQUENTIAL ACCESS Storage Pools of FILE Device Class. As the user defines Sequential Access Storage Pool of FILE Device Class type t...
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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