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Spectrum Protect REST API : Further Development

The Spectrum Protect Client Management Service allows REST API calls to start a backup, restore, update BA client configs, restart daemons, and so on. It is a great initiative. And we need something like that. More than ever now that the BA webage...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

TSM Script Editing feature that was in the Administration Center to be in Operations Center

would like the TSM Script Editing feature that was in the Administration Center to be in Operations Center.The Admin Center Script editor was pretty “low function”, but at least it allowed changes and cut and paste. And it had a nice syntax checki...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Add non root access to ESS nodes with AD authentication

This RFE is to request the ability for adding non-root user ids to the ESS systems with authentication such as external AD. The current options are: 1) sudo wrappers using the following procedure on page 80 : https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgec...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Future consideration

.NET Wrapper for TSM API

A mono-project (http://www.mono-project.com/) wrapper for the TSM API is desirable, in order to ease development of utilities and add-ons to the TSM Server
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center - Security granularity

IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center - Security granularity
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Copy container pool to cloud pool

Spectrum Protect (TSM) currently does not support the use of cloud pools as protection for container pools. The Copy Container functionality should be enhanced to support the used of cloud pools (in addition to tape) as a way to protect an on-prem...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Server command to change/migrate node config from one TSM instance/server to another

When running a TSM environment with multiple servers and TSM instances on each server - and not always having direct access on all clients - it will be useful if a TSM administrator could issue a server command to tell a client to change its confi...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

SNMP monitoring fileset quota (block/files)

Customer want to monitor via SNMP all the alerts that the system can generate like:fileset quota block (soft/hard)fileset quota files (soft/hard)Storage Pool Metadata block/inodes Storage Poo Data block/inodesand all other event that the system is...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale System 0 Under review

Ship ESS Bundles with full RHEL BaseOS and AppStream Repo

ESS Bundles currently ship with a crippled set of RPMs from the RHEL BaseOS and AppStream Repos. We want that the ESS Bundles are ship with the full RHEL BaseOS and AppStream Repos. Please revert back to what you've initially done with GSS and shi...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale System 2 Future consideration

Spectrum Copy Data Management needs to support AIX LVM volume Mirroring for HA (2 separate storage devices for each mirror)

Any user of AIX with HA/LVM Mirrors will benefit. Not every AIX system can be brought up to current code and FlashCopy Manager no longer supports aix 6. I have an SAP/Oracle System with HA across 2 sites/SVC clusters. An LVM mirror is in each site...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration