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    halt command should do a complete and clean halt by option

    Currently the halt command stops all processes but does not unmounts mounted volumes. In an LIBCL LIBMG environment you cannot use the drives until some timeouts will recycle the drives or the use in not confirmed to LIBMG (ANR8925W Drive x in lib...
    almost 15 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Changing the default path of the Staging directory

    The following technote describes a case in which files stored in the staging directory are deleted:http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21692439 Instead of looking for workarounds, in the form of setting a different location in the dsm...
    almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

    TS7700 forced premigration

    Today premigration of a virtual volume in a TS7700 can be delayed with a storage class setting to delay to some future point in time. However, there is no control currently to prepone premigration or to specify a timeout when premigration has to o...
    almost 10 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

    Support for Sony Library ODS-L30M

    Support for Sony optical libraries (Sony ODS-L30M).Increase the support list in optical libraries for Spectrum Protect (TSM)
    almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    "-all"-Flag for "repairvdiskcopy -resync"

    Enhancement for the command "repairvdisk -resync" with a flag "-all", which automatically includes all vdiskcopies which are not in sync.
    almost 10 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Add client backup status, backup files, size, date details for report with dashboard to understand backup failure and success

    Product Tivoli Fastbackup for workstations 7.1.4.0 We are unable to get correct meaning full report on low level for TFB clients.1.We want report with client name, user identity, start date of backup, last backup date, last backup error, successfu...
    almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Not under consideration

    Store GPFS metadata blob as in the database, rather than as file data

    The GPFS data blob (which contains the file metadata, including the ACL's, storage pool assignment, atime, etc) is currently stored with the data, rather than in the database as metadata. This means that potentially very large amounts of data are ...
    almost 15 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    DB2 is backingup empty spaces

    - The fastest way to backup is to not back it up at all. Change DB2 backup method so that just "used" spaces are backedup. If "empty" spaces is still needed because of "performance reasons, than consider using posix_fallocate / fseek etc during re...
    almost 15 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Not under consideration

    RFE for support of "mmafmctl <filesystem> failoverToSecondary ?j <fileset> --norestore" within mmcesdr

    AFM-based DR support a “--norestore” option when invoking # mmafmctl <filesystem> failoverToSecondary –j <fileset> --norestore e.g. secondary# mmafmctl kyc2 failoverToSecondary -j sec02 --norestorePrimary Id (afmPrimaryId) 149423358914...
    almost 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

    snapdiff to update last backup fields in filespace data

    Could you please update the TSM snapdiff client to update the lastbackup information of filespaces when a "query filespace f=d" is issued. This would be the obvious behaviour and would be inline with the documented meaning of the columns This limi...
    almost 15 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 5 Not under consideration

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