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    Support of FCM Oracle RAC Cloning into mutiple RAC Node Target Clusterr

    Customer would like the ability to clone into a multiple node RAC cluster.
    over 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Not under consideration

    Supported for LDAP Configuration user passwords to include dollar symbol

    Spectrum Discover does not currently support the "$" symbol in the LDAP Admin user password when setting up LDAP authentication.We would prefer to include special characters in the password for security, we request "$" be allowed by Spectrum Disco...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Planned for future release

    Detail results not appearing when using proxy for backup

    The backups are working properly, but Operations Center does not graph results from proxy node backups. Operations Center version as 7.1.3TSM Server version as 7.1.3.0. Found hits pointing to DOC APAR IT07424, which indicates that this is a known ...
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

    Would like choice to ONLY show tags for selection if present in results list

    When we search through metadata and get a table of results, we can choose which columns to show and which to hide Many tags are not defined for my selections results, we would like to only have tags present in the results list in the tag column di...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

    Using Powershell DataSpaceUsage in TDPSQL breaks fundamental requirements

    TDP for Databases (MSSQL) makes use of powershell API call "DataSpaceUsage" prior to executing the Backup Log command to the virtual tape interface. The resulting query against the database allocation unit structures suffers from blocking while se...
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

    pmcollector, pmsensor for AIX

    Is it planed to develop "pmsensor, pmcollector" (linux like) programs for AIX ? Is there any possibility to include performance monitoring of GPFS cluster running on AIX to TPC (Spectrum controll) ? thank you
    about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Reporting availability in the TSM administration console

    Unlike other tools, if the standard minimal reporting can be incorporated with the TSM server admin console. Like media information(Vault & scratch), DB backup status, Backup status, etc. Some of the informations, we will get it from the opera...
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

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    Security/Audit demands an authorised legal disclaimer is displayed and acknowledged before user access to IT systems, services or devices is granted
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Virtualize: increase replication relationships

    A large GTS client (with over 13PB of flash in production) has multiple production sites replicating to a single DR site. The 3:1 relationship limit makes makes managing the DR site very complex.
    about 5 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Include backed up data amount in ANR4550I

    Why was the amount of data backed up removed from ANR4550I (and ANR4558I)?
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

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