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Tivoli Central Console shows Wrong Data

TSM FastBack for Workstations Central Administration Console does not show the correct data.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack for Workstations 2 Not under consideration

Different method to reset an expired password for MI users

At present when a password expires in VTS MI the only way to reset it is asking the CE to open a PMH to reset the admin user so it can reset the password of the user affected.The customer would like that each user can reset their own password with...
almost 10 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

Password expiration granularity for VTS MI users

At present the password expiration policy for MI users is setup at global level, this makes that all users have to have the same password expiration policiy. The customer needs to be able to specify a different password expiration policy for diffe...
almost 10 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Not under consideration

TSM for VE / Reporting Enhancement / Daily Backups at VM level

Daily Status of TSM/VE backups at VM level with following columns: . Schedule start . Actual start . Actual finish . Schedule name . VM name . Cluster name . Backup Completion status . Error code if failed
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Password expiration granularity for DS Storage Manager users

At present the password expiration policy for DS8000 is setup at global level, this makes that all users have to have the same password expiration polciy. The customer needs to be able to specify a different password expiration policy for differen...
almost 10 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

Parameterization of the port (2443 default) used by the Spectrum Control for the configuration of Hitachi storages

I have to integrate a hitachi VSP G700 and G900 storage in Spectrum Control, but I have a problem because the default port 2443 of the hitachi Command Suite when the client installed it changed to 443 and 2443 port is not available. The request is...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

TSM file devclass support for NFS filesystem

When defining file type of devclass, the directory options can be multiple directories. define devc fileclass devtype=file directory=/back1,/back2 We will be using 2 x 10 Gbit card to access NFS share. There will be two mounts at least, but both m...
almost 15 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

SRA agent should support "status" for HBAs

Right now the SRA (Storage Resource Agent) does not support a status for SAN HBAs.It should display a useful status for every HBA - preferably even every port on the HBA.Possible states: Online/Offline/Link-Up/Link-Down, etc.This should exist for ...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

Multiples Users logged in simultaneously

When a Library TS4300 is logically partitioned in several logical libraries every admin or operator need to do some administratives jobs on their own Logical Library, on the actual restriction to do simultaneos login , its not possible for all of ...
almost 5 years ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 0 Not under consideration

Minimize impact to DS8K when replacing an VRM

The customer had to replace failed VRMs in a DS8000 machine. After the VRM replacement and when passing from single CEC to dual CEC the redistibution of cache and NVS caused noticeable service impact. Please see PMH 46510,200,838. The customer wou...
almost 10 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration