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Support for SEDs with ECE

Support the use of SEDs for storage with ECE, either with locally managed keys, centrally managed keys, or ideally, both
almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Planned for future release

dsmc -filelist quotes and control characters

There are constraints that prevents BA client from processing files: they may not contain quotes and apostrophes; thay may not contain control characters either.IBM should come up with escape and quoting rules that could allow BA client to process...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Fine(r) grained RBAC model

As of today Spectrum is having hability to grant rights according to end user profile. A user can be for example a collection admin or a data user having then a set of predefined permissions. Would it be possible to assign finer permissions based ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

Moving backupsets between device types

We are moving to a tapeless Tivoli environment. We have many backupsets on LTO cartridges that need to be kept forever (so they say). I need a method of moving these backupsets to a disk device type. This will keep us from having to keep an LTO dr...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

Send notification via SS and ESS for expiring encryption certificate

As the expiring certificate is expiring, the warning messages will be printed periodically into the GPFS daemon log (/var/adm/ras/mmfs.log.latest) in upcoming 5.0.x release. This RFE is to notify users via email or whatever means configured in ESS...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Have the ability to choose the backup node in oracle

Spectrum protect plus does not currently have the ability to choose the preferred node for backups in the case of oracles like in the exchange for example, and we have this in question for some customers, who do not want to change in oracle
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future 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...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Show Unprotected Applications

As the System discovers "unprotected VMs" and "unprotected Databases/Applications", I'd like to get a query / view, which are these.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

IBM SPP Support for Non-AD LDAP servers

IBM SPP to support for Non-AD LDAP servers such as OpenLDAP
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

systemd init scripts with BA client on linux platforms

Given that all supported Linux platforms by the Tivoli Storage Manager B/A client have shifted to systemd init, provide both systemv and systemd startup scripts and either make a decision at install time or let users choose which method to use aft...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Not under consideration

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