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Storage Protect Family

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TSM Server version history

Sometimes it is necessary to known what time you did run which version on your TSM server. For example when you may affected by an APAR(IC71049) which should be fixed in the current version you are running, but you still have older volumes affecte...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Planned for future release

Spectrum Protect LDAPUser Automated Password Updates

We require a LDAPUser interfaces with AD to obtain automated password update or maybe uses a token solution for regular automated password updates to the Spectrum Protect Servers.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

change owner ID of archived objects, in GUI it is not possible to see the archived data if owner id not exist anymore

change owner ID of archived objects.In GUI it is not possible to see the archived data if the owner id does not exist anymore. we were advised that we should open an RFE for this: Answer from IBM: There is not a way to change OWNER after the objec...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Add functionality to Data Protection For Exchange to allow restore of soft deleted mailboxes

System: Data Protection For Exchange Actor: User needing to recover soft deleted mailboxes.Data protection is a commonly used product that provides backup/restore for Exchange environments. Description: We use Data Protection For Exchange to prote...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Not under consideration

Exchange 2013 support with TSM

Target date to support Exchange 2013 with TSM for Mail
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Planned for future release

Inckude/exclude/wildcards/regex

Like to use wildcards/regex and/or include/exclude statements whenn selecting:* datacentre* hostclusters* hosts* vm's* storge
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Change dafault on deployments

Reevaluate default settings for retention of events and how frequent you pull or generate them. Option set:Activity Log Retention: 120 Day(s) - keep actlog longer than 4 quarter time limit, 100 days bare minimum, old setting from a time when 1GB o...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Ops Center Reporting

similar to "To pull graphical representing reports from operation center (102024)". The canned "General Operations" report is very nice and useful. It would be nice if we could generate similar reports but there is no documentation on how to do that.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 0 Not under consideration

one way password implementation on tsm server

During a security audit we found some probleme with the implementation of password allgorithm in TSM. It is recommended to immplement a one way password encryption algorithm, at least for the TSM server accounts (Admins, server to server, lan free...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Open LDAP support

LDAP authetication is only supported with :ADIBM directory server It is possible to support LDAP authetication with Open LDAP ?
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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