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    TFCM with Oracle ASM single user environment

    Oracle supports the use of a single user setup to manage both the database instance and the ASM services. As such the client has standardized on a single user in it's Oracle ASM environment. TFCM requires both an Oracle instance user for the datab...
    over 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

    AD with autoID mode to support NFSv4 Kerberos authentication

    Need cross platform access (NFS and SMB) in an AD domain where the AD-LDS is not RFC2307 compliant. We need to be able to use AD with autoID mode to support NFSv4 Kerberos authentication. Using the kerberos ticket for IDMAP instead of UID is a use...
    over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

    mmaddnode error message enhancement

    mmaddnode failed with a "node already belongs to GPFS cluster" error. But the problem ended up being that a reverse DNS lookup of the IP address of the node being added returned the IP address of a node that already belonged to the cluster. Since ...
    over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    Add the ability for protocol replication to support many:1 replication for shared DR cluster

    The request is for support of many:1 replication for protocol cluster replication rather than only the present 1:1 model.
    over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    Remove requirement to manually remove / re-add file authentication with mmcesdr

    When executing failover, restore or failback, the instructions in Section 16 of the document “IBM Spectrum Scale 4.2: Advanced Administration Guide” clearly states that one must remove and then re-create file authentication on the relevant cluster...
    over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    mark recovery points as corrupt if volume/container is irretrievably destroyed or damaged

    If a volume is destroyed, is audited with discarddata=yes or otherwise cause to or found to be damaged but cannot be repaired, there are potentially corrupt recovery points. In the case of TSM for VE, the ideal behavior would be to mark all potent...
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    Remove the dross from VM backups

    Page/swap space continuously changes, so every time you do a vm backup, this space will get backed up again. Also due to the totally random nature of the contents, it will not deduplicate will. It may be just a few Gigs/vm, but over multiple versi...
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

    Linux StorageAgent installs via RPM

    With the release of TSM 7 there is no longer an RPM released to install the TIVsm-stagent package in Linux.
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 0 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Protect Snapshot PREREQ-checker silent install Mode

    Besides descriping it in the mainpage the Spectrum Protect Snapshot Prereq-checker (8.1.9.0-TIV-PREREQ-AIX.bin for example) is not able to be installed in silent mode with an response file.So automated installation on systems is not possible.
    over 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    TSM4VE for Hyper-V - enable Hyper-V host to backup VMs from other Hyper-V hosts

    After extended testing with IBM support and Microsoft support, it appears that TSM4VE still uses the Windows 2008 implementation for Hyper-V backups. While running backups on multiple Hyper-V hosts, some backups fail because simultaniously an othe...
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

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