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TSM for VE - Add Support for Creating and Adding Custom SSL Certificates to the TSM4VE Server

TSM for VE installs a self signed certificate. I need to use CA signed certificates. No matter what I do, TSM for VE always displays the default IBM supplied certificate. What is the procedure for installing custom certificates on my TSM for VE se...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Change to Remote Support Roles

Alter Monitor Use role to enable opening of remote support session and (optionally) send a SNAP. Alternatively create a new role - Remote Support (?) - that can do so.
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

MDiskGroups/Pools require manual size selections

Actor: Virtualize UsersProduct: Virtualize Products (such as the SVC and V7000) which virtualize other storage devices do not intelligently size the mdiskgroups/pools on the backend. This allows Virtualize Users to define excessively large pools w...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Add pre and post scripts to automatic backup-archive client deployment TSM

The automatic backup-archive client deployment TSM should add to the client updater the ability to run scripts, or at least some custom commands, before and after the upgrade.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Flashcopy Manager 4.1.6 for Windows does not cleanup volumes in registry after successfull snapshot

On Windows 2008 R2 SP1, with SQL 2012 SP4. When using Flashcopy manager 4.1.6 to take snapshots to an v7000 storwize of the databases with IBM hardware provider 4.15. using BA client 7.1.8.2 and TDP 7.1.6.0.Every snapshot made is filling up the wi...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 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...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Is a defect

Move Data from old copy pool to new copy pool

In order to handle tape media upgrades or tape recording format upgrades, customers need the ability to MOVE data from an old copy pool to a new copy pool
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

filespace capacity and utilization should reflect allocated and used space in the databases protected

Today it is not possible to check capacity and utilization of the databases protected, as the filespaces is not updated with the figures tsm: TSMGOT15>q fil ORAPREEDB01_ORACLE f=D Node Name: ORAPREEDB01_ORACLE Filespace Name: /orapreedb01_gpcal...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Discover Reporting

Spectrum Discover is a powerful and useful tool, however, the reporting capability needs to match the product capability.
about 3 years ago in Storage Discover 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...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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