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Storage Protect Family

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Solaris x86 TSM Client support beyond version 6.2.5

The latest version available of Solaris x86 TSM Client is 6.2.5To date, no plans have been announced to include the Solaris x86 version in future client releases. We are concerned that we will bw unable to backup a large number of x86 Solaris serv...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

TSM Online Indexreorg with temporary allocated filesystem

High end customers using TSM with SSD for DB directories and running 7x24 are very likely to run into the following situation: because SSD space is very expensive, it is not always possible to permanently attach hundreds of GBs to each TSM instanc...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM for VE - exclude

1. exclude -vm=all-powered-off<br /><br />We are having issues with lot of powered off VM's    being backed. Need to have a global suboption to exclude poweroff vm's.<br /><br />2. recognize the inclexcl file &nbs...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

TwoFactorAuthentication for OC

We would like to use two factor authentication with smart cards to log in to our Operations Center in order to enhance security
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Add dsmGroupHandler calls for archive objects, or a way to retrieve the last written ObjID

dsmGroupHandle() API calls are only implemented for backup type of objects.There is only a comment in the manual saying that this can be done in other ways using archives, but no examples? The dsmEndTxn() API calls, returns the groupLeaderObjId, w...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Collect the file space information in TSM monitoring and reporting

Currently the file space (q filespace) information from the TSM server is not being captured in the Monitoring and reporting application. The information that I am needing the most is the file space capacity and the percentage utilized.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Not under consideration

TSM for VE Restore to Alternate Location Options

Restoring a VM to an alternate location is lacking sufficient details and options to allow for a prompt and quick restore.1. The drill-down provided goes from data center to ESX host and then to data store. I believe another option to select a clu...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Ability to encrypt export media

TSM based Application Encryption uses the TSM Server database to store encryption keys. It is currently not possible to encrypt export tapes (self-describable media) as there is no documented method to extract the applicable encryption key from th...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Client encryption for LAN-free to the IBM Spectrum Protect server V8.1.9.300

I need to run a backup with the option of client encryption for LAN-free to the IBM Spectrum Protect server V8.1.9.300
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Provide support for TSM for VE on PowerLinux (Linux-ppc64)

One of the advantages of running large backups/restores in a Power system is the use of in memory networking between LPARs. By increasing the MTU size of these inter-partition networks, we are able to get decreased backup times of several of our l...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

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