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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.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

More characters for the Options file in ISPforVMWare or Folder selection

It´s not possible to use the new ISP for VMWare GUI to backup a big VMware Environment. Problem here is: If you add to much VM´s in the selection list through the wizard, the optfionsfile get´s to big. --> anr2603e update schedule options strin...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 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...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

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...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 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...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

enhanced encryption

stronger encryption, for example encryption with the AES algorithm with a key with a length of at least 256.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 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

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

Post all TSM Linux application and dbms backup agents into RPM Linux repository

Place all linux-based TSM clients into a standard linux repository, so updates can be performed using standard linux system tools. This repository would need to be publicly accessible, although they can be secured with a login.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

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