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    TS3500 (3584) time synchronization (NTP)

    We have a TS3500 Tape Library and we can not set the date & time synchronization to the company's internal NTP server, there is no such option on the Web-based Administration Interface.Please give us an advice how to do this or please enhance ...
    about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

    incremantal backup via NDMP

    Since TSM's limitation of doing NDMP backup of filer as full+differential. So if its having feature of adding incremental as one option, so we don't need to waste space by having differential backup as its become so large at one point until u do f...
    about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

    Add warnning message for Filesystem NFS excluded from Backup in option "all-local"

    We use the "Client option set" to make a backups for a group of servers. When we use the domain "All-local" and specify a NFS Filesystem in a "Include" statement, the TSM Server doesn't show a message warnning reporting that are exclude of backup.
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    TwoFactorAuthentication for OC

    We would like to use two factor authentication with smart cards to log in to our Operations Center in order to enhance security
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    IM SPectrum Protect support for expired data report

    URGENT Requirement : Nedbank, in South Africa, are a large consumer of Spectrum Protect ans many other IBM products and are an ELA customer.. They urgently require assistance with an enhancement for them to be able to see when files were expired/d...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

    Backup client for SAP HANA

    There is a need to develop a real backup solution for SAP HANA. As it is today all backups are done on a full-backup base from files. Since the database can be quite large this is a problem.
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Planned for future release

    Operation Center Report Interval

    TSM Operation center reports scheduling is limited. Some reports for management are more useful at monthly, quarterly or even yearly intervals, however currently the only supported schedules are daily or weekly. Adding additional duration options ...
    about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

    Azure support included as a Container Pool for Spectrum

    We would like to have the ability to connect to Microsoft Azure for storage of our backups, or potentially to run our entire TSM environment in. Current disks available in Azure are too small to be used for storage pools, so would require access t...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

    TSM: Smarter Reclamations when objects span tapes

    If an object (a huge file, or a backup from a TDP agent, for example) spans three or more volumes, so it starts on one volume, consumes all of one or more volumes, and ends on the third (or last) volume, any reclamation of a tape containing a segm...
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    Smarter Tape Usage in Storage Pools

    My request is that TSM be coded to look for tapes already in use, with free space available before assigning another empty scratch tape to the storage pool. For example upon filling tape1 TSM would look in the primary storage pool for the next hig...
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

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