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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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TSM's snmp subagent should be supported on Linux directly

Alerting and monitoring via Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus (from the ITNM suite) should integrate with TSM server running on Linux directly, but it currently does not. TSM's SNMP subagent requires an extension SNMP-DPI, which only exists on AIX. This requ...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

move nodedata process information

After the issuing of the command MOVE NODEDATA the user can not know, by issuing the QUERY PROCESS command, which node that is being used.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Decouple TSM database from Storage Control - allow for VM based TSM

At present, TSM is typically deployed on physical machines due to the requirement to present physical tape resources. I suggest that the database repository be decoupled from the data flow so as to allow the server to be virtualized and provide th...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM Script variable assignment and flow control

Script flow control and variable use within TSM scripts is rudimentary, at best. Better flow control and the ability to use local variables would help creating useful and portable admin scripts.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM admin expiration on managed servers

Based on functionality : The passwords for managed administrator has expired, but they are not prompted to change the password when logging into the managed Server It is explained here :http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21500509 But...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

connect tsm-users to an existing active-directory, not only "complex-passwd-delegation"

in tsm 6.3.4 we can connect the tsm-users to an active-directory. but on the active-directory i need a new full-access-delegated ou. and this new ou is only a workaround to have a complex-password-policy for tsm.i want to use the existing active-d...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Support TSM 7.x on Redhat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7

The newest version of RHEL (v7) was released on June 10th 2014. Since this new version uses the xfs filesystem as default, and this filesystem offers up to 500TB filesystems out-of-the-box. In contrast even the newest versions of RHEL v6 (that is ...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Better logging for node replication failures

When using node replication, and a replication process fails - it is very often hard to find the exact cause.It would be great, if the reason - or at least the node(s) and/or filespace(s), that caused the error would be logged in the TSM server ac...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Add Oracle Enterprise Linux 6 to the list of supported Operating systems

We would like to have Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) version 6 (Red Hat Compatible Kernel) added to the list of supported Operating Systems for Tivoli Storage Manager server on Linux x86_64. Please note that OEL provides two kernels. We are referri...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration