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tdposync with script

Since migration to version 6.3.0, we are no more able to use tdposync in script because password is request on concole or terminal. Many Oracle DB is hosted in our Data Centers and cleanup TSM with RMAN Catalog can be a heavy load if this opportin...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 4 Planned for future release

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

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

TS7700 should allow option to overwrite search history

The TS7700 will retain up to 10 previous search results when querying logical or physical volumes. Once the customer has created 10 search results any additional search attempts will be denied until the customer deletes one or more of the previous...
about 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Planned for future release

MFA Support for Spectrum Scale CLI

We had the request to enhance the security modell in spectrum scale for mm cli cmd to support multi factor authentication (MFA). The implementation should support the current well accepted standard of RFC 6238.
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

Lack of integration with IBM Spectrum Protect

Lack of an integration between IBM Spectrum Protect (SP) and IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management (CDM) using Pure Storage. Lack of this functionality is a major road block to deploy/adoption a supported combination of Pure, CDM and SP solution.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

Streamline total indexed objects count

Since the introduction of the Spectrum Protect feature, Spectrum Discover does no longer report the total number of indexed objects. We see the total number of objects that are non-Spectrum Protect specific in the respective tab and we see the tot...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Planned for future release

TSM for Mail for 64bit Domino on Linux x64

There's currently no compatible TSM for Mail client available in order to backup a server running IBM Domino 9 - 64bit for Linux.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Planned for future release

Improve TSM Replication over high latency WAN links

I would like a TSM server option that would allow TSM to use as many parallel TCP connections as possible in order to maximize throughput along a Long Fat Pipe (WAN link w/ >60ms latency between TSM servers). Alternatively, I would like the TSM...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Planned for future release

TSM for VE: Exclude Windows Page File

TSM for VE needs to provide the ability to exclude Windows page files.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Planned for future release

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