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Additional Replication IP for Secondary Server beside high level address and low level address

Secondary server has 2 IPs but we can only specify 1 hl address when server is defined on primary server. Because of that all clients for which replication is enabled, want to use the HL address to perform backups when called for. Ultimately would...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

SPP: Multiple LDAP servers required

We are using SPP 10.1.13 for backup of VM machines of customers with some project manager requiring access and some customers (vm owners) to be able to start single file restore. Our customers requires to have more than one LDAP server authenticat...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

add webproxy/authentication for TSM Auto Client Deployment ftp access

The Auto Client Deployment function in the TSM Admin Center has the ability to connect to the IBM ftp servers and automatically download client packages, which assists managing large corporate environments. Unfortunately, large corporate environme...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Not under consideration

Show Unprotected Applications

As the System discovers "unprotected VMs" and "unprotected Databases/Applications", I'd like to get a query / view, which are these.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

IBM SPP Support for Non-AD LDAP servers

IBM SPP to support for Non-AD LDAP servers such as OpenLDAP
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Working as designed -- Content of dsm.opt file disappeared?

Content of dsm.opt file can be lost
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Moving backupsets between device types

We are moving to a tapeless Tivoli environment. We have many backupsets on LTO cartridges that need to be kept forever (so they say). I need a method of moving these backupsets to a disk device type. This will keep us from having to keep an LTO dr...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

Improve NQR Performance

When doing an NQR on Nodes with tens of millions of files, the initial TSM database search and sort operation which takes place on the server takes several hours. We noticed that the hardware resource utliziation (CPU, DB2 Disks) is not very high ...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 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 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

systemd init scripts with BA client on linux platforms

Given that all supported Linux platforms by the Tivoli Storage Manager B/A client have shifted to systemd init, provide both systemv and systemd startup scripts and either make a decision at install time or let users choose which method to use aft...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Not under consideration