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    Include VMware Tools in Spectrum Discover appliance

    To be able to make consistent backups of Spectrum Discover appliance, please include open-vm-tools in the OVA version of Spectrum Discover, and please include upgrades of open-vm-tools as a part of the Spectrum Discover upgrade.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Not under 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

    Make policy creation use case easier

    When creating a policy there are 3 very common stumbling blocks that force them to abandon the definition and start over from step 1. These problems are, roughly in order of occurrence: ***** A. User forgot to define tag for the policy. Currently,...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Planned for future release

    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

    Linux command for managing Spectrum Discover

    Most UNIX/Linux users are used to work on the command line. I would like to propose the following idea: create a command called "sdcli" (Spectrum Discover cli) or "dmcli" (Data Management cli) which can be a shell or Python script and can be insta...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 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

    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

    move or migrate cloud container

    There's no way or support to move or migrate the content of a cloud container.
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    Certificate based client validation

    It would be nice, if certificate based validation could be used for clients - in order to enhance the security regarding client validation towards the TSM server.Client certificates could be issued using a local PKI - and when a client connects, t...
    about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

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