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Bypass VSS_E_MAXIMUM_NUMBERS_OF_VOLUMES_REACHED limitation on

We need a new feature to bypass the VSS Limit of 64 Volumes during the Backups.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Planned for future release

Enhanced security for admin access to Protect

Administrative access to Spectrum Protect (including but not limited to the WebUI) has a weak security model.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Future consideration

Tivoli Central Console shows Wrong Data

TSM FastBack for Workstations Central Administration Console does not show the correct data.
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack for Workstations 2 Not under consideration

Different method to reset an expired password for MI users

At present when a password expires in VTS MI the only way to reset it is asking the CE to open a PMH to reset the admin user so it can reset the password of the user affected.The customer would like that each user can reset their own password with...
about 8 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Not under consideration

Password expiration granularity for VTS MI users

At present the password expiration policy for MI users is setup at global level, this makes that all users have to have the same password expiration policiy. The customer needs to be able to specify a different password expiration policy for diffe...
about 8 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

TSM for VE / Reporting Enhancement / Daily Backups at VM level

Daily Status of TSM/VE backups at VM level with following columns: . Schedule start . Actual start . Actual finish . Schedule name . VM name . Cluster name . Backup Completion status . Error code if failed
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Password expiration granularity for DS Storage Manager users

At present the password expiration policy for DS8000 is setup at global level, this makes that all users have to have the same password expiration polciy. The customer needs to be able to specify a different password expiration policy for differen...
about 8 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

FCM support for PowerLinux.

Currently Flashcopy Manager is only support on Linux x86_64 platforms.We would like to see support for PowerLinux setups.
about 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

TSM should support NDMP backup with VTL libtype

TSM Server should support NDMP backups with libtype VTL. It's documented that generally backups are faster when using a VTL and libtype is set to VTL instead of SCSI. Due to the limitation of TSM libtype VTL cannot be used as NDMP backups are not ...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Planned for future release

Changing Retention between Source and Target Replicated Nodes

We need the ability to have different retentions between on the source and target for each replicated node. That way we can store active data for the short term on the source and change the replicated node to long term retention.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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