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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Automatic decommission for clients on cloud server

Decommissioning of clients does not always happen for clients on the cloud server. This leaves clients data in the cloud and can increase our monthly chargeback for cloud storage along with maintaining data passed the retention date – can cause le...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Node Replication process

Hi,a backup process is preempted by Node Replication process. This is incomprehensible. Why Node Replication process has a higher priority than backup ? In this way, backup stg process should also have a higher priority.Thank you.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Is a defect

Bandwidth throttling between two TSM servers during the "node replication"

The customer want to have the possibility to have a flexible bandwith during the node replication with a secodary TSM according to their needs.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

deduplication sequential pool

Hello, After 14 month of TSM deduplicaiton tests with terrible Performancewe would wish to have deduplication volumes on device class=disk. At the Moment only devclass = sequential is supported.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM Client Pre/Post

Reporting on the TSM Server of the status of TSM client pre/post schedule actions
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

SSL/LTS Certificate revocation

SSL/LTS Certificate revocation The product should contain a mechanism which can deal with certificate revocation in a sensible way. Currently TSM will allow the use of a revoked certificate.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM OC DRM Support

The Administration Center is aging and outdated. The Admin Center is only supported in UNSUPPORTED browsers (Firefox 3.6) or outdated browsers (IE 8). The Operations Center looks to be its replacement. Functionality of the OC however is very lacki...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Dilligent tsm integration

Hi, i think it would be very nice to have a better dilligent tsm integration. It should be very nice to have client side deduplication with dilligent as primary stgp pools.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Include ulimit requirements to TSM init script

During reboot of linux systems, init scripts inherits kernel default settings for open files (ulimit -n).    These will be too small, and give warnings in tsm actlog.    The init script does not read values from sysctl or limit...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Is a defect

Make the time interval for "ANR3654W Inventory file expiration processing did not run in the previous 24 hours" configurable

The message ANR3654W is shown even if an expire inventory schedule was executed every day at 4pm, because the detailed time frame including seconds is checked for the message. The request is either check not on detailed second (maybe a minute or 5...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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