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Post all TSM Linux application and dbms backup agents into RPM Linux repository

Place all linux-based TSM clients into a standard linux repository, so updates can be performed using standard linux system tools. This repository would need to be publicly accessible, although they can be secured with a login.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

Please post TSM Windows client software to allow integration into Windows Update

Please integrate TSM Windows clients software update download capabilities with Windows Update.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Please post TSM Linux BA client in public standard linux repository

Post Linux packages for BA client on a publicly available RPM repository. Standard Linux distributions can then add that repository to the list of update sources, and run a standard system update process.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

TSM Missed backup status used to have a completion time of when the event missed now it's blank since 6.2.3. Please add back

Product: Tivioli Storage Manager Server Version 6, Release 2, Level 3.0 This is specific to a Missed backupWhen a backup has Missed the timestamp is recorded in the actlog but when executing the QUERY EVENT it is not recorded. We would like the co...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Is a defect

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 the use of VPC Endpoint Interface URL for S3 bucket access when defining Cloud Container Storage Pool in Operations Ce

When defining a cloud container storage pool, an option of 'Other' URL is given, and in the CLI a CLOUDUrl can be specified with a custom URL. Instructions say to use the region S3 endpoint URL. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-protect/8.1.11?...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future 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

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