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Enhanced security for admin access to Protect

Administrative access to Spectrum Protect (including but not limited to the WebUI) has a weak security model.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Future 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 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under 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 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Planned for future release

TSM Login Banner

Security/Audit demands an authorised legal disclaimer is displayed and acknowledged before user access to IT systems, services or devices is granted
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Add Support FlashCopy Backup and Clone Presets

The FlashCopy function in Spectrum Virtualize offers backup and clone functions that SCDM currently doesnt support it would be great to have the ability to create SLAs supporting FlashCopy backup and clone in SCDM to add to FlashCopy NoCopy and Fl...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future 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 13 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 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

Autodeploy over SSL

Enable autodeploy over an SSL connection. Currently, autodeploy fails if a TSM client is configured to use SSL. As SSL communications become more common/required, autodeploy over SSL should be available.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

ICO managed TSM activities

Centralized management of TSM activities through TSM server instead of direct connection from ICO to the End-Point. This would enable TSM Server acting as automation tool for backup related activitites such as triggering of backups , snapshots, re...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

VM vmdk multithread process - Enable the per VM multithread (process multiple vmdk from within a single backup job)

VM vmdk multithread process - Enable the per VM multithread (process multiple vmdk from within a single backup job)
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

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