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Move Data from old copy pool to new copy pool

In order to handle tape media upgrades or tape recording format upgrades, customers need the ability to MOVE data from an old copy pool to a new copy pool
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Not reuse the same password

TSM Controls does guarantee that the password expire every 90 days, however, it does not have a way to guarantee that the password that is being used is different than the previous one. To avoid findings uncovered in the area of TSM compliance, I ...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Backup Client for Debian Linux

Debian und viele andere Linuxdistributionen (z.B. Ubuntu, Univention, Knopix, ...) nutzen nicht das RedHat Packeage format rpm, sondern ein anderes Format namens .deb. Damit ist man bei der Erstellung der Pakete immer auf zusätzliche Konvertierung...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

SP / SPP integrated with CyberArk

Many customers are using cyberark to protect the access to the systems. it is a requirement from a large couple of customers.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

SCOM Management Pack for Spectrum Protect, Sectrum Protect Plus.

A management pack for the management of Spectrum Protect and Spectrum Protect Plus in System Center Operation Manager.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Improvements to Client Update targeting in Operations Center

The new automatic client updates built into Spectrum Protect Operations Center (OC) 8.1.3 does not currently support targeting of supported versions, nor filtering by OS version in order to do so manually. There are two improvements I would like t...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Allow for creation of canned "Data Protection Report" but limited to selected Policy Domains

Allow for creation of canned "Data Protection Report" but limited to selected Policy Domains, across one or more TSM servers, which would include client related sections such as backup success rate, activity over 24 hours, protected clients and nu...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Support Lin_Tape Driver on RHLE 6.9 x86/64 for Product Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Family.

Need client support for updated Lin_Tape Driver on RHLE 6.9 x86/64 (v3.0.21.0) prior to official release in Nov 2017. Related to Current Crit AA1279 AND PMR 10768,082,000.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Deactivate Data for Sybase ASE Backups

Would be nice if Sybase ASE API backups can bemarked inactive using the "deactivate data"command. Currently we rely on a home grown script which is not that reliable.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

WORM directive for Directory Container Pool with Spectrum Scale immutable fileset

Specify WORM at Spectrum Protect level when writing to a Directory container pool when using Spectrum Scale immutability function on the fileset so Backups can be compliant with a series of security needs.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration