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policy admins need ability to remove replication configuration in order to remove node

We provide TSM as a service and grant policy rights to our server users who create/delete their own nodes, schedules, and the like. Previously, they would delete their own filesystems ande then remove the node. However, since implementing node rep...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

include all TSM client products in autodeploy

Include all the TSM client products (TDP, etc.) in the functionality of autodeploy.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Multi-session retreive operations

As described in Technote 1571833. Multi-session restore functionality does currently not cover archive retreive operations. We need Multi-session retreive operations like for restores.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Relabel-On-Scratch option for external library manager

When TSM Server recycles (frees) a virtual tape of a VTL this is eliminated from the TSM DB, but not from the VTL. So statistics e.g. Dedup factor are distorted over time. To prevent from this the TSM Relabel-on-Scratch option was introduced. But ...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Planned for future release

IBM Spectrum Protect - Request for unique identifier for summary items

Please see attached file.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

NetApp SnapDiff Backup without Domain Admin Rights

We need to do a SnapDiff-Backup of our NetApp. The backup-user must not be a member of the Domain Administrators group.At this time there is no possibility of doing the backup without the membership of Domain Administrators.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

SVR5 format in installation packages for Solaris 11 b/a client is needed

TSM backup and archive clients on Solaris 11 should be delivered in an IPS/SVR5 package Format (at the moment it is the SVR4 package Format). This “new” package format SVR5 was introduced with the release of Solaris 11 in 2011 (hence it's more tha...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

allow metromirror between hyperswap clusternodes

Provide possibility to create metro mirror relationships between 2 storwize hyperswap cluster nodes.currently this can be only done through command line.
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

EasyTier Pool new extent allocation on specific Tier

Build an option for SVC Easter pools so that we can set the allocation of new extents to a specific tier level.
almost 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

TSM should support the shared tapedrive feature of TS3500

TSM 7.1 on AIX 7.1 with TS3500 tape library. ANR8300E I/O error on Ts3500 tape library OP=(00006c03). I have 4 E07 tape drives in this physical library I have 2 logical libraries with the robotics and one tape drive assigned to each library, and t...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration