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Spectrum Protect (Server)

AUDIT VOLUME command enhancement

One of the features of the current AUDIT VOLUME command is that while an audit process is active, clients cannot restore data from the specified volume or store new data to that volume. This can be a significant issue for audit volume processes th...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Not under consideration

Multiple Clientoptionsets for Nodes

Possibillity to assign multiple Cloptset to a node to build a cascade of rules. The Priority will follow the order the Cloptsets are assigned.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Not under consideration

restore stg xxx preview=yes

Env TSM Srv 6.2.3.0 for Windows x86_64 SrvName: DKS006_SERVER1 Problem: The client complained the output of the "Restore Stg ...PREVIEW=YES" command. He expect like described in documentation a complete and simple list of all volumes which are req...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Not under consideration

Optimize Write IO behaviour on DISK

Using diskpools (deviceclass=disk) or filepools (deviceclass=file) on a non-cached disk system is very slow, and therefore not usable. Example (same setup in both cases):TSM write to diskpoolon 8x Internal DISK = 8MB/sAIX cp command on 8x Internal...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Not under consideration

New options to TSM server query session command

Query session option to display only sessions for a specific node. Query session option to display only specific sessions type.
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Not under consideration

Support for ClientUpdate in NAT'ed setup

A sort of auto-detect mechanism would be nice for the ClientUpdate function - in order to detect which tcpserver address and tcp port number the client uses for communication.This is required, if client and the server are seperated ny at NAT'ing f...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Not under consideration

2 factor authentication in the IBM Spectrum Protect Server (TSM)

As a safety factor, we now have the 2FA (2 factor authentication) issue. An example is DUO installed on aix machines.For the TSM Server application do you have something planned for this?If so, what is the forecast for the product?
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Not under consideration

Admin permissions just for a domain

More and more of our customers are requesting access to our Operation Center, but in the current functionality of TSM and Operation Center there is no way to deny/grant access to a certain domain.What we are requesting is a way to shield the domai...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Not under consideration

Azure Archive Tier Blob Tagging

Azure Archive tier is only usable by changing blobs after write. Archive blobs are not readable, but metadata is still there. It's very similar to HSM, with a recall delay of up to 15 hours. Archive tier has a very low storage cost, and is suitabl...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Not under consideration

Allow TSM client schedules to use "minutes" for PERUnits

Please allow the PERUnits to be able to be updated to a value smaller than "Hours" i.e. minutes or seconds
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Not under consideration

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