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Operations Center - Management class - Custom retention time

When defining a management class from the Operations Center, there are only predefined values for the Backups, Keep Extra backups etc.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

GFS2 Support with TSM

GFS2 File systems are not supported with TSM currently and would like to see if we could enhance the support in future TSM versions. We are running TSM server version 6.2.4 now ( will be upgrading to 6.3 by next month) and client version used is 7...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

Image encryption

By not allowing a image backup to be encrypted a potential security breach may arise. The particular situation is that a few files in a filesystem are encrypted. A image backup will negate that as it stores all files/blocks and all files will be r...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Backup of Cloud Apps

More and more applications are available online in the cloud such Exchange Online, SharePoint online, Dropbox and OneDrive Business.This areas do many think it's including backup, but the backup is limited and not even close to many customers SLAs...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

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
over 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 ...
almost 13 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...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under 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.
almost 5 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...
about 7 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...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration