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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Allow server side encyption on DISK and DirectoryContainer storage pools

TSM server (IBM Spectrum Protect) cannot do server side encryption for storage pools that are not either LTO or cloud-based. We'd like to have an option to enable encryption on DISK or DirectoryContainer based storage pools (knowing that deduplica...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Fine control for node replication of databases

When database RPO is 24hrs or more, it makes no sense to replicate the database transaction logs (Oracle, MSSQL, DB2). Transaction logs do not deduplicate and therefore accounts for a significant overhead in cross-site replication. It would be goo...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Increase maximum value of archive retention field

Increase Maximum Value of Spectrum protect retention paramaters to extend retention up to 100 years. Customers in legal and compliance field require to retain and automatically delete data for 100 years. The current maximum retention is 30,000 day...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Support of AIX V7R2 with TSM V7R1 (latest version)

The requirement is a support of of AIX V7R2 with TSM V7R1 (latest version).Current, TSM V7R1 has support AIX V7R1. AIX V7R2 isn't included.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Database temp space usage

Currently any large SQL queries results in using up all the remaining DB space. This causes shutdown and loss of service.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

New kind of pool: combination of Primary and Active Data

As it is today we can have a Primary pool, which receives (and maybe maintains) several versions of an object and an Active Data Pool, which expires and then removes older versions of objects as new ones are backed up. And with this at least two c...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

TSM Operations Center Add Client Node add to node group

When adding a client node using the beautiful TSM Operations Center, the user is walked through various selections for node, domain and backup schedule and even client options set! Great. In a disk only based solution with node replication where r...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Allow server/oc silent install script to work across revisions

Currently, an install script has to specify specific versions/revisions of TSM server and OC code when identifying what components to install. This means the script is only good for that v.r.m.f.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

TSM: Manual upgrade when skipping instances in a Linux cluster environment

Manual upgrade when skipping instances in a cluster environment
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Enhance define volume command with additional parameter

When defining a Sequentialfilevolume, it appears instantly in the filesystem. This is possible, because the internal structure of the volume will be created later, when data is written to it. This was introduced somewhere in TSM Version 6.3 and us...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

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