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CEC status reporting enhancement

During a current issue with a DS8000 CEC failure (on a DS8880 device), the status of the CEC reported to either CSM or storage insights was that the CEC was active. This is apparently the result of the status coming back as ok simply because the e...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Session warning status in the event of DS8k CEC failure

When a DS8k experiences a CEC failure, CSM reports errors on LCUs that are associated with that CEC and changes the session status to Severe (giving the impression to the customer that there is a mirroring problem or scenario that would cause issu...
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Not under consideration

File level restore web GUI - Prevent providing TSM admin credentials

To enable the file level restore web GUI, from the TSM for VMware web GUI configuration wizard, it is required to enter TSM admin server credentials. Due to security reasons it is not desirable to be able to connect to the TSM admin ports or to lo...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

NFS V4.2 Support

We need support for NFS V4.2 On the one hand, NFS V4.0 face major issues, and on the other hand in our use case we could strongly benefit from the new 4.2 features like "server-side-copy" and "sparse files"
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Change QUERY ACTLOG output to match terminal window width

I'm not sure if this RFE applies to the server or dsmadmc client, but the request is to change the behavior of the QUERY ACTLOG command output to stretch (and wrap if necessary) to the current width of the terminal window where it is running.Other...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Point in Time Restore facility

With DB2 as core of TSM to reduce the impact and time to restore a TSM-DB we want to have a function like point in time restore capability. These Function enable us to reduce our outage window in an case of an disaster.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Use seperate TCP port for node replication - preferably only communication initiated from the source server

When using node replication, it should be possible to specify a seperate TCP port, that can be used for node replication (and the dsmadmc command line should not be able to communicate on this port).From a network security perspective, it is not a...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Publish TSM client software via yum repository

Currently, it's possible to download the latest client-related TSM software packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS at ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/patches/client/v7r1/Linux/LinuxX86/BA/ It would be even better i...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 1 Not under consideration

DS8000 equipps IP port for PPRC link use

DS8000 PPRC links are configured via FC ports. When the distance is over 100km, FCIP converters are used for WAN connection. My customer who manages system z server and storage environments hope to use IP ports for PPRC links because he wants to d...
almost 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Incremental Restore

It would be useful if TSM for VE provided "incremental restore" functionality, using the Change Block Tracking feature, so as to perform a restore of a VM by only restoring data which has changed since a specific point in time.This is possible wit...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

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