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Spectrum Protect (Server)

Allowing authentication to external LDAP as meeting password complexity locally.

Allowing authentication to external LDAP as meeting password complexity locally.
over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Delivered

List of new/changed server (ANR) messages in TSM V7.x

In previous version there was documentation on new/changed messages e.g.Version 6.3.4 ANR new and changed messages this is not available in version 7. please re-instate this documentation
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Delivered

Admin API

Please document and open the admin api to the server. There seems to be an API which is used eg. by Tivoli Integrated Portal as I can see XML in tcpdumps. Maybe you still use something like SOAP. So providing an WSDL and/or Interfaces to .NET and ...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Delivered

move data from one bucket to a new one

the custmer has created a new bucket with ecryption and he migrated DATA from the no encyption bucket to this new one , but on the TSM server ,we couldn't update the bucket name on the container stprage pool, we even couldn't migrate the data from...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Delivered

TSSM Migration Utility Enhancement

Customer is migrating from AIX to Linux per a corporate mandate to move to Linux. Customer already upgraded from TSM 5.x to 6.x using the migration utility to migrate from the proprietary TSM datatabase to DB2. They used IBM ECM Services for this ...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Delivered

Being able to use other IDs besides SYSTEM ID for HANA Backup Setup

IBM Support/SME confirmed that user ID that is used for the setup.sh needs to be SYSTEM ID as per the documentation provided.This RFE is for our developers to allow other users IDs with the required privileges to be able to run the setup.sh for SA...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Delivered

Cancel Backup StoragePool command

TSM is a great product, but the automation of an Enterprise-class deployment cannot be done entirely within TSM alone. You already have a CANCEL EXPIRATION command, which cancels the expiration without needing to know the process number. I would l...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Delivered

TSM summary table should provide accurate info on backup status, regardless of the used scheduler within the environment

The SUCCESSFUL field in the SUMMARY table is not a valid representation of the "success" or "failure" of Backup-Archive Client operations. Rather, it maps to the "Normal server termination" field in the TSM server accounting records.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Delivered

"MAXPROCESS" Parameter for "BACKUP NODE" Command

Presently, when issuing the "BACKUP NODE" command against a NetApp or System-N filer (without specifying a volume, or volumes), a backup process for every volume on the filer is immediately, and concurrently, created. The filer, of course, cannot ...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Delivered

Use DB2 compression for TSM DB backup

Enhance the TSM server command "BACKUP DB" to allow for DB2 backup compression!
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Delivered

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