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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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TSM reports RC4 rather than RC12 Failed when an NFS volume mounts okay, but permission to underlying directories is denied

NFS share backup scheduled backup not reporting a failure when TSM server cannot back up directory due to permission denied. The event table reports the schedule with a return code 4. The permission to the underlying directories (NetApp qtrees) mo...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Allow TSM client logs to be brought back to server for analysis when server staff do not have access to client file system

Allow TSM staff to bring back and use the TSM client logs to determine issues and error conditions at the time of backup failures
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

TSM Meta Data Only Replication

TSM Meta Data only replication
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

To hold expiration for particular version of VM snapshot backup copy on Backup server

Currently we are facing issue to retain particular date's backup copy of the VM snapshot. For example: There is an request from customer to perform a file-level restore from VM snapshot from oldest copy. If its Unix VM, OS team takes sometime to c...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

TSM Server version history

Sometimes it is necessary to known what time you did run which version on your TSM server. For example when you may affected by an APAR(IC71049) which should be fixed in the current version you are running, but you still have older volumes affecte...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Planned for future release

one way password implementation on tsm server

During a security audit we found some probleme with the implementation of password allgorithm in TSM. It is recommended to immplement a one way password encryption algorithm, at least for the TSM server accounts (Admins, server to server, lan free...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Change dafault on deployments

Reevaluate default settings for retention of events and how frequent you pull or generate them. Option set:Activity Log Retention: 120 Day(s) - keep actlog longer than 4 quarter time limit, 100 days bare minimum, old setting from a time when 1GB o...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect LDAPUser Automated Password Updates

We require a LDAPUser interfaces with AD to obtain automated password update or maybe uses a token solution for regular automated password updates to the Spectrum Protect Servers.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Node replication failed and does not replicate all data if a communication error occurred on the source or target server

The node replication failed and does not replicate all data if a communication error occurred on the source or target replication server.Occasionally, node replication will complete with a FAILURE in spite of replicating all objects after having a...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Open LDAP support

LDAP authetication is only supported with :ADIBM directory server It is possible to support LDAP authetication with Open LDAP ?
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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