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Spectrum Protect and Open LDAP

A lot of customer use an openLDAP to secure their IT and enforce all application to use it.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Backup Session Bandwidth Throttling

I would like to have a TSM backup client option that sets the maximum bandwidth that the session is allowed to use. Would like to have the option available for Windows and Linux clients.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

starting SLA dialog not enough information

When you manually start an SLA, a "Start Options" dialog box pops up and you have to click "OK" to start the SLA, it would be nice if you can see which SLA (the name of the SLA) you are starting... All you see is the words "SLA Policy" and a combo...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Planned for future release

allow audit of copy-container pools

Some customers demand proof-read of tape based storage pools on a regular basis. We have used AUDIT VOLUME for this purpose even though its primary purpose is to check consistency of data but by doing that, it also reads all data from the tapes. B...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

ANR2034E should be INFO and not ERROR

It's annoying that there's an error logged just because I ran query mount and nothing was mounted (maybe that was a good thing). This is how it currently looks on one of our servers, 184644 counts of ANR2034E, second place is 938. That's a lot of ...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Save failed commands ran on cluster to be viewed in audit logs with output in Blue Diamond

* SME Martin Dzhagarov suggested this , so creating this RFE * - Where were supposed to look for failed commands.This is Blue Diamond and I don't think that it show up in the audit log- Failed commands do not show up in the Audit log. Can the cust...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Make supported use of additional samba parameters

In order to supply our storage users with the same user experience as on former SONAS share, we want to make supported use of additional sambashare parameters:# File browsinghide dot files = yes/nohide files = lost+foundhide special files = yes/no...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Errors for RSYSLOG should show more detail.

We enabled RSYSLOG pointing to a test syslog server. The action appeared to work properly but very soon after the status of the server was shown as being offline. However, when I queried the syslog server data was being sent so it wasn't truly off...
almost 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

KMPI v2 protocoll support for TS4300

Our TS4300 Tape Library for LTO supports 2 ext. key managers for tape encryption: the IBM GKLM (before SKLM) and 3rd party key managers with KMIP communication. The supported KMIP protocoll version is v1.2. Unfortunately this protocoll version is ...
almost 3 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 0 Future consideration

TSM Admin Center(tip) needs support for Firefox 6 and beyond.

TSM Admin Center - tip(tivoli integrated portal) does not support firefox 6 and beyond. It needs to support firefox 6 and beyond for currency in our environment.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 6 Not under consideration

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