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    TSM instance crashed; Error: fileystem full, however no ANR2992W was warning encountered before filesystem becomes full.

    Customer is not seeing ANR2992W warning before TSM ran out of DB space, and has what should be adequate space available.
    about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

    Automation of TSM configuration

    Automatically discover devices and (re-)configure TSM server/client options It's reported that our competitive products may have had such capability. Account team contacts: Ken Kelly/Waltham/IBM, Daniel R Digregorio/Waltham/IBM@IBMUS, Gary Graham/...
    about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

    Add capability to extract data from existing TSM backup to a second node

    A lerge number of customer require periodic long retention backups.    Currently the most space efficient way of achieveing this is by having a second node for the long term retention and running periodic ( e.g. weekly, monthly, quarterl...
    about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    TDP Exchange doesn't support restoring mailboxes greater then 2,1 GB

    We need to restore mailboxes into a single pst-files.Restoring process stopped after appr. 2,1 GBError message: ACN5935W The mailbox restore operation has only partially completed.
    about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Planned for future release

    Integrate AD for user authentication in ESS

    Currently the Storage Team uses root to log into the ESS I/O nodes and EMS but it would be nice to set them to integrate with Active Directory for non-root users. We assume other customers use AD for authentication on their EMS and I/O nodes.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Not under consideration

    DB2 Snapshot Support for Linux One on A9000

    We'd require support for Flashcopy Manager support for DB2 on LinuxOne so that this can be governed via Copy Data Manager.
    over 6 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

    Multiple journal based services on AIX

    We would like to have multiple journal based services on AIX. As far as we know, actually this is just implemented on Windows systems but we would like to have it on our AIX and Linux systems.
    about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

    Backups whitout vmware quiescing

    If a problem whitin a vm exist and quiescing does not work, it would be good to be able to do an crash consistent backup.
    about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

    SVC Global Mirror with Change Volumes. Force a remote sync cycle on demand.

    Need a way to achieve an "application consistent" remote sync point on demand, without the need to pause the application for a full cycle period. Need to pause the application for 5 seconds or less. That is, need GMCV to perform like Traditional G...
    over 13 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Flashcopy Restore using FCM/SPS

    Client wants to be able to restore snapshots on the local side with replication still in progress. Customer believes SPS should be able to break replication on a local restore and then restart replication after the restore completes. Case #: TS002...
    over 6 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

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