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    TSM file devclass support for multiple directories

    When defining file type of devclass, the directory options can be multiple directories. define devc fileclass devtype=file directory=/back1,/back2 Currently the backup will not use the second directory /back2 unless its size is smaller than /back1...
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

    AIX support for ibm HH LTO5

    IBM HH LTO 5 is currently only supported X Series.Request to work on AIX.
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

    TSM Fastback Server has extremely slow read operations from disk

    TSM Fastback Server has extremely slow read operations from disk:- all restore operations with both methods, Fastback Mount and Fastback BMR,- DR to TSM and- long term proxy backups to TSM.The speed of restore does not exceed 10Mbit/s (aggregate) ...
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack 4 Not under consideration

    FCM: Unix/Linux: Support for csh Shell

    Currently FCM supports ksh and bash as Unix/Linux shell. Some customers standardized the csh shell in their environment due to SAP history. Unfortunately some scripts which perform recovery on the clone system (during FCM cloning) fail if the data...
    over 14 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

    Improvements needed for planfile scripts for Tivoli Storage Manager

    The process of building a server, extracting and using the DRM planfile scripts, and recovering the TSM server is convoluted and difficult, especially when you are in a time-critical recovery test or event. These procedures should be re-created as...
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Tivoli Monitoring for TSM

    We have ITM6 monitoring agent for TSM installed on TSM server to test TSM monitoring scenario but agent have not much features as per the customer requirements, and we need help to get those features, view with this agent. I had open PMR 13425, L6...
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

    Eliminate the possibility of unintentionally deleting data (SYS4039)

    Eliminate the possibility of unintentionally deleting data
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 5 Not under consideration

    TSM Scheduler Update (SYS4331)

    The Best Practice for TSM server environments is to include Full backups on a periodic basis. With the efficiency of the incremental Forever strategy of TSM, there comes a side effect that can become a road block to achieving a timely RTO. This is...
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    Proactive/Predictive Alerting or Analysis Before a Port goes Bad

    Wondering if there could be some proactive alerting or analysis in storage insights based on different metrics that are collected for all the ports(FICON, FCP, ZHL) to predict a port going bad before it actually does go bad on DS8K. Currently, the...
    5 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

    To enable SSL to transitional for nodes automatically without human intervention

    We are often facing backup failure due to SSL connection failure which needs to be updated manually from SP servers As we have only client support, we are fully dependent on SP Server team, due to that process, backup is impacting we need a soluti...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Under review

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