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TSM file devclass support for multiple directories

When defining file type of devclass, the directory options can be multiple directories. define devc fileclass devtype=file directory=/back1,/back2 Currently the backup will not use the second directory /back2 unless its size is smaller than /back1...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

AIX support for ibm HH LTO5

IBM HH LTO 5 is currently only supported X Series.Request to work on AIX.
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

TSM Fastback Server has extremely slow read operations from disk

TSM Fastback Server has extremely slow read operations from disk:- all restore operations with both methods, Fastback Mount and Fastback BMR,- DR to TSM and- long term proxy backups to TSM.The speed of restore does not exceed 10Mbit/s (aggregate) ...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack 4 Not under consideration

FCM: Unix/Linux: Support for csh Shell

Currently FCM supports ksh and bash as Unix/Linux shell. Some customers standardized the csh shell in their environment due to SAP history. Unfortunately some scripts which perform recovery on the clone system (during FCM cloning) fail if the data...
about 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Improvements needed for planfile scripts for Tivoli Storage Manager

The process of building a server, extracting and using the DRM planfile scripts, and recovering the TSM server is convoluted and difficult, especially when you are in a time-critical recovery test or event. These procedures should be re-created as...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Tivoli Monitoring for TSM

We have ITM6 monitoring agent for TSM installed on TSM server to test TSM monitoring scenario but agent have not much features as per the customer requirements, and we need help to get those features, view with this agent. I had open PMR 13425, L6...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

Eliminate the possibility of unintentionally deleting data (SYS4039)

Eliminate the possibility of unintentionally deleting data
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 5 Not under consideration

TSM Scheduler Update (SYS4331)

The Best Practice for TSM server environments is to include Full backups on a periodic basis. With the efficiency of the incremental Forever strategy of TSM, there comes a side effect that can become a road block to achieving a timely RTO. This is...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Improve system memory hard limit for GPFS program startup to adapt to AI system

We hit the following issue on Spectrum Scale 5.1.6.1 when GPFS is starting up. 2023-12-13_21:22:28.648+0800: [I] Verifying minimum system memory configurations.2023-12-13_21:22:28.648+0800: [I] The system memory configuration is 2063930 MiB2023-12...
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Allow manually to set up limits for Daemon pods on Openshift platform

Currently when we perform hot-add on a OCP node, SpectrumScale operator detects that and set that node into "Spectrum scale update" state. That means that all pods will be evicted from that worker, because operator has set that node into cordone s...
11 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

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