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Support AES-Features of CPU

The encryption in TSM is handled by the GSKcrypt-library. Since GSKit 8.0 the library supports the hardware-encryption for several CPUs, like:- SPARC- Intel- PowerUsing VMWare 6.0 one can even use this CPU-feature in a VM. TSM Clients should be en...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

dsmc query backup -detail show all volume IDs

dsmc query backup xxx -detail only display one volume id, please display all volumes IDs or volume_names used by xxx objects.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Allow signed certificates instead of only self-signed for TSM TDP VMWare GUI website

The certificate being used for the website is self-signed and give a error in browser and VMware Vsphere client
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Want TSM TDP for SQL client to exclude offline SQL DBs from backups and log a message about the same in the log file.

Want TSM TDP for SQL client to exclude offline SQL DBs from backups and log a message about the same in the log file. Currently what happens is whenver TDP SQL backup encounter an offline SQL DB backup get failed for DB and return code for the bac...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

Data segregation with filesets link

The customer has a fileset. The application used is SAP netweaver.It runs on the cluster with one same uid/gid. The physical users are connected to this application remotelly and there is no UID/GID specific to them. One of the SAP transaction per...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Increase the number of maximum concurrent open SSH sessions per system

Increase the number of maximum oncurrent open SSH sessions per system, to larger values, say 64. The current limit is 32. Reference:http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssg1S1005424
almost 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Cancel multiple client sessions

Having a run to a server with many many client sessions, how can many being canceled by one single command?
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

IBM SVC- request ability in V7.x GUI to create multi-volume (plus symbol) capability like in pre-V7.x GUI.

Pre-V7.x GUI, when creating New Volume there existed an ability to enter a (Volume Name, Size, # of Volumes) and ability to click on (plus symbol) to add new line for entering additional New Volumes. Appears that starting in V7.1.0.x GUI, that whe...
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

Protocol replication needs the ability to failover individual filesets for DR testing

Protocol replication has “all-or-nothing” failover/failback process. Cannot test DR for new exports. We need the ability to failover individual filesets for DR testing With “AFM-based DR” (which the protocols cluster DR is based on), and indeed fo...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

AUDIT VOLUME command enhancement

One of the features of the current AUDIT VOLUME command is that while an audit process is active, clients cannot restore data from the specified volume or store new data to that volume. This can be a significant issue for audit volume processes th...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration