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BA client bind to specific IP

We need to run multiple DSMC SCHED on the same windows machine and we use sessioninit=serveronly. Due to firewall restrictions we are required to use only 1 single port. For each DSMC SCHED we have a separate IP and defined tcpclientaddress in dsm...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

SP Operation Center Front-End licensing improvement

Please, improve the functionality of front-end licensing on SP Operation Center. Currently, it is only showing active-data on the front-end licensing which is not completely true.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

TSM4VE: restore a vm with multiple hard drive's to different datastore's using vcenter plugin or BA client.

We use TSM4VE to backup VM's to Data Domain, SAP/ORACLE is hosted on VMware.We have RHEL VM's with multiple Hard drives(upto 30) on multiple datastores(raid 5, raid 1/0, dedicated datastores for data, logs, os). There is every chance that a VM is ...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Moving the TSM Server parameter DIRECTIO NO from a server-wide option into a device class specific parameter

The Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) server will, by default, use non-buffered I/O bypassing the file system cache. By specifying the server option DIRECTIO NO within the dsmserv.opt, this behavior can be changed – means TSM is using the file system c...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Compression for Virtualize is Selective

Virtualize/Storwize Compression is selective by nature; meaning that it will allow you to compress data which will cause performance impact despite being able to identify non-compressible data. This leads to many performance related impacts.
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Admin permissions just for a domain

More and more of our customers are requesting access to our Operation Center, but in the current functionality of TSM and Operation Center there is no way to deny/grant access to a certain domain.What we are requesting is a way to shield the domai...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Allow specification of CN in LDAP authentication for TS4300 login

Currently when configuring LDAP authentication on TS4300 the user CN is fixed cn=xxxxx.Modern authentication servers use different common names than "CN" - like "UID", ... Please add ability to specify which User CN is being used for LDAP connecti...
over 4 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Future consideration

Able to do mmcallback to stop the GPFS event, exemple prevent to unmount filesystems if services are still running

It would be nice to be able to configure a mmcallback in Spectrum Scale where the return code of the command run by the callback could stop the GPFS event. Actually, from the IBM documentation, GPFS can make 3 differents things in a mmcallback : -...
about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

Windows Spectrum Protect Client no need of Backupoperator to backup Shares

We use System Protect Client for Windows to backup/Archive files on our NAS from NetApp. But the System Protect Client for Windows needs to run with backupoperator rights. This is ok, if I am the only user. But a user with this right, has at least...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 1 Not under consideration

indication of severity in the notification e-mail subject line

Currently, all notification e-mails shows "warning" in the subject line. Customer cannot which one needs immediate action and which one is really just a warning. Since each event is classified as "warning" or "error", the corresponding notificatio...
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

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