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Add columns to the Servers table for Version, Release and Level info

The server / storage agent version, release and level info is reported by the QUERY SERVER FORMAT=DETAILED command. However the same information is absent from the SELECT * FROM SERVERS command. This makes attempts to automate configuration manage...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Support to include/exclude Nested Vmfolders

I was thinking of using VMFOLDER to select VMs. While trying to figure out the syntax for specifying a nested folder, the link (http://www-01. ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21432938) was brought to my attention. Basically, TSM VE only allows ...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Migrate Inactive Data from StoragePools

Need the ability to migrate inactive data from storage pools. When large disk pools are used (typically with dedup) and these pools fill, there is no way to automatically migrate data in a selective manner. Using Age based migration rules results ...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Using VMware vSphere Tags for selection of VMs to back up

We need better tools to select which VMs to be included in or excluded from a backup. The RFE ID 62515 is another indication of this. I suggest to implement into the TSM client the ability to select VMs to include/exclude based on VMware vSphere T...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

TSM Scripts and substitution variables. User defined error message when parm is not used

Concerning TSM script with parameters. We use a lot of Selects (SQL) and most of them needs a parameter. The possibility to check if a user did start a TSM script with a parameter ($1, $2 etc)When not entered a parameter, let the user know which p...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

More characters for the Options file in ISPforVMWare or Folder selection

It´s not possible to use the new ISP for VMWare GUI to backup a big VMware Environment. Problem here is: If you add to much VM´s in the selection list through the wizard, the optfionsfile get´s to big. --> anr2603e update schedule options strin...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

MDiskGroups/Pools require manual size selections

Actor: Virtualize UsersProduct: Virtualize Products (such as the SVC and V7000) which virtualize other storage devices do not intelligently size the mdiskgroups/pools on the backend. This allows Virtualize Users to define excessively large pools w...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

MOVE NODEDATA command enhancement

One form of the MOVE NODEDATA command allows the movement of selected file spaces of a single node between storage pools. For example, MOVE NODEdata node_name FROMstgpool=source_pool_name TOstgpool=destination_pool_name FIlespace=file_space_name H...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Full VM Restore into alternate datastore, add capacity, util + free space of target datastore

When performing a full VM restore into an alternate datastore it would be more than helpful to see besides the datastore name also the information about the whole capacity / utilized capacity / free capacity of the datastore to be able to select a...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

move nodedata by backup date

I would like to have the option to use the MOVE NODEDATA command with a selection of a range of backup dates. As it is today the finest selection is based on the filespace, but inside the filespace there are several backup dates, that could be sel...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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