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Storage Protect Family

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Spectrum Protect LDAPUser Automated Password Updates

We require a LDAPUser interfaces with AD to obtain automated password update or maybe uses a token solution for regular automated password updates to the Spectrum Protect Servers.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Open LDAP support

LDAP authetication is only supported with :ADIBM directory server It is possible to support LDAP authetication with Open LDAP ?
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Backup of Cloud Apps

More and more applications are available online in the cloud such Exchange Online, SharePoint online, Dropbox and OneDrive Business.This areas do many think it's including backup, but the backup is limited and not even close to many customers SLAs...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

TSM VE 6.4 support double-byte VM host name

In case of double-byte like Japanese VM host name, VMware off-host backups using vStorage for Data Protection API was stop backup as error. Could you fix this limitation of Single Byte character. Request environment:vSphere 4.1 TSM Server V6.3.3 W...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

If primaray server hang, baclients tried to connect on secondary replication server and never come back on primary.

If primary replication server hang, clients tried to connect on the secondary and never come back on secondary until CAD service isrestarted. I think this should not append and clients should automaticly reconnect on primary. Also, this is for bac...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

Reduce Spectrum Protect Operatin Center query to bring down load on SP database

Regarding TS004537647. That is correct that there's no issue with finishing the daily work in a timely matter. There are some tunables to reduce the frequency of queries or stop them altogether. One of the background threads that is the busiest is...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Not under consideration

WORM directive for Directory Container Pool with Spectrum Scale immutable fileset

Specify WORM at Spectrum Protect level when writing to a Directory container pool when using Spectrum Scale immutability function on the fileset so Backups can be compliant with a series of security needs.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Use different option and configuration files in FlashCopyManager for TDP SQL

Since the TDP for SQL GUI has been deprecated and replaced by FlashCopyManager as a GUI, we are unable to select which "dsm.opt" and "tdpsql.cfg" files will be used to perform backups and restores i.e. we are forced to use the default ones: * "c:\...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 3 Not under consideration

Operations Center alerting modification

Configure alerting only on the hub server. The hub server should be the monitoring instance which is configured to send emails to administrators defined on hub server. The configuration wizard only shows the admin id's of the hub server. This curr...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

FCM - Managing Multiple SQL instances from one console

There are 2 instances of SQL which have been configured with 2 separate optfiles as per the old standard however the Flashcopy manager gui defaults to use the dsm.opt file in c:\program files\tivoli\tsm\tdpsql folder. We need to have separate shor...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Planned for future release