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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Allow for use of two factor authentication in lieu of username/passwrds for TSM

Allow for use of two factor authentication in lieu of username/passwrds for TSM
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Allow for use of PK certificates for authentication of a TSM client to a TSM server and vice versa.

Allow for use of PK certificates for authentication of a TSM client to a TSM server and vice versa. The certificates could also be used for encrypting communication.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Allow for use of two factor authentication in lieu of username/passwrds for TSM

Allow for use of two factor authentication in lieu of username/passwrds for TSM
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

ANS1360I message only in clientlog, but not in Servers actlog

following message in dsmsched.log: 11/23/2011 21:02:26 Normal File--> 47,610 \\server1\c$\xxx\file_name.pdfANS1360I Compressed Data Grew It is not possible to monitor this error automatically, because its only in clients error log. also it is a...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Allow automatic checkin of returned DRM volumes

It would be useful to be able to checkin tapes that have come back from offsite as scratch automatically, instead of having to do a MOVE DRM on them first (or after checking in as private).
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Automation of TSM configuration

Automatically discover devices and (re-)configure TSM server/client options It's reported that our competitive products may have had such capability. Account team contacts: Ken Kelly/Waltham/IBM, Daniel R Digregorio/Waltham/IBM@IBMUS, Gary Graham/...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Working Version for tsm 6.3 on solaris 10 x86

hello, this is not really a new feature. on ibm webpages, solaris 10 x86 is "not supported" for the server and client. so it wood be good to have versions for solaris10 x86
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

TSM NDMP Support for EMC VNXe backups

We would like the ability to backup CIFS shares on an EMC VNXe (Low cost storage array, supports CIFS only) storage array. This would be via NDMP protocol.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

TSM Archives retention periods should change when new retention period set

We recently changed the retention periods on both our backups and archives. When the backups ran they rebound the new retention period to the old backups. We would like this same thing to happen with archives.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Delete Schedule needs warning(Ye/s/No) for the nodes associated

'Delete Schedule' command removes the schedule from domain and the nodes that are associated to the backup schedule. Instead, looking for an warning message for the clients,while being removed from the schedule(association). Agreed that,it will be...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration