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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.
about 7 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.
over 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.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Enable customer provided SSL certificate in OC

Many compagnies don't allow self signed certificate anymore. Operation Center doesn't offer a solution to use CA signed certificate. It would be really usefull to allow customer to set it up.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Bring lin_tape source into the Linux kernel

The lin_tape drivers are causing us trouble either when the OS kernel is being updated, or if the drivers need an update. Keeping a high patch level for security patches is very important on backup servers, since the backup servers generally have ...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

24H Clock needed in DP for VMware/OC

Installing/configuring/educating users on Spectrum Protect including DP for VMware and Operations Center on a daily basis we have found a annoying drawback. In Sweden (and other countries) we are using 24H clock and we are not used to AM/PM weird ...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

timeout for a locked volume

There is a possibility of a volume that is being used by a backup session be requested by a migration process, but because it is locked the migration process can enter in a "waiting for access to input volume" state that can lasts a very long time...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Teradata Data Stream Architecture (DSA) support

Today they backup with TSM Teradata with BAR and would like to start using TSM with DSA. So they can use the new and enhanced alternative, and an eventual replacement to the legacy ARC-based BAR architecture that will triple backup performance and...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

syslog receiver for linux

Feature to allow TSM to externalise events through a reciver that can put events into syslog without the need for external scripting.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Simultaneous backup to primary and copypool using lanfree.

Simultaneous backup to primary and copypool using lanfree. Our customer is interesting in doing simultaneous backup to primary and copy storage pool.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

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