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TSM Operations Center GUI improvements client at risk status

Exclude a node from at-risk condition when the ANS7900W warning message occurs.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

rename management class

We use TSM Client to archive data that has been delivered to our external clients just to be able to reproduce issues if the client has issues with our data
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Keep supporting TSM API (backup to TSM via BRMS on IBM i)

We would like to extend TSM API support for BRMS for TSM 6.2 & V7.1
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Enable automatic regeneration of an expired password on any session

When the password of a client node expires on the TSM server node, the client node is able to automatically set a new password when passwordaccess is set to generate. However, this does not work if the password expires while a client node is in th...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Provide a way to show running TSM scripts and to cancel them

Currently there is now way to show which TSM scripts have been startet and furthermore they cannot be stopped. The only way to finish a script prematurely is to cancel every process that is startet by the script or to define exit conditions such a...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Supporting Cloud-Container Storage pools on zLinux

Cloud-container storage pools is a feature that that already exists on Spectrum Protect family but it is not supported neither has a roadmap for it on top of Linux on Z.Today Sicoob already uses Spectrum protect on Linux on Z and not having a prop...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

report if backup was deduped by client

If the client de-duplication has been enabled for a given node, but the estimated size is bigger than:tsm: TSMWAR01>q opt *deduptx* Server Option Option Setting------------------------- -----------------------------------ClientDedupTxnLimit 1,0...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement to the new node 'decommission' command

TSM 7.1.3 introduces a new command called 'decommission node' Can this be enhanced to have a date option to specify a future date other than the default retention policy? Example: "decommission node xxxx date=12/31/2015 ...."
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

VMware VVols support on Data Reduction Pools

Nowadays VMware VVols could be used in any IT environment worldwide.
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Virtualize/Storwize /Flash need more notification options

The Spectrum Virtualize code (and related systems) allow email addresses to have combinations of notification emails sent (inventory, info, warning, and error). At least as of FlashSystems version 1.5.1.2, a new restriction is being enforced. Atte...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration