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Storage Protect Family

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TSM reports RC4 rather than RC12 Failed when an NFS volume mounts okay, but permission to underlying directories is denied

NFS share backup scheduled backup not reporting a failure when TSM server cannot back up directory due to permission denied. The event table reports the schedule with a return code 4. The permission to the underlying directories (NetApp qtrees) mo...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

support cephfs with full ACL support

cephfs is a scalable filesystem with full posix campatibility. The need to support this filesystem with full ACL support is needed.
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

this applies to Spectrum CDM: Show Jobs IDs and SLA Policies IDs in CDM GUI

Client remark: When a user defines in Spectrum CDM GUI a new backup or restore job, and also when a user defines a new "SLA Policy", a unique ID is assigned to the job and a unique ID is assigned to the SLA Policy. Both IDs are used @ storage subs...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Future consideration

TSM Meta Data Only Replication

TSM Meta Data only replication
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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

To hold expiration for particular version of VM snapshot backup copy on Backup server

Currently we are facing issue to retain particular date's backup copy of the VM snapshot. For example: There is an request from customer to perform a file-level restore from VM snapshot from oldest copy. If its Unix VM, OS team takes sometime to c...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Image encryption

By not allowing a image backup to be encrypted a potential security breach may arise. The particular situation is that a few files in a filesystem are encrypted. A image backup will negate that as it stores all files/blocks and all files will be r...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Copy Data Managment: SAP HANA (system) connectivity should support SSH keys

As of today SCDM needs "user/password" credentials for its SAP HANA (system) connectivity. As this a security risk (and not allowed at our company anymore) the product should support SSH keys as system credentials. Since SCDM already has this for ...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future 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