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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

Custom certificate for TSM-VE for VMware plugin

I would like to get an interface or at least a procedure (commands) to replace the builtin autogenerated certificate push in TSM-VE plugin for VMware. Actually, we need to manually install this autogenerated certificate on each new machine that co...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

GM needs Ubuntu supported for the Spectrum Scale HSM Client asap

Customer has purchased 130PB SP License and needs to run Ubuntu for the Protect Server and HSM Client
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Node replication failed and does not replicate all data if a communication error occurred on the source or target server

The node replication failed and does not replicate all data if a communication error occurred on the source or target replication server.Occasionally, node replication will complete with a FAILURE in spite of replicating all objects after having a...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Backup of Cloud Apps

More and more applications are available online in the cloud such Exchange Online, SharePoint online, Dropbox and OneDrive Business.This areas do many think it's including backup, but the backup is limited and not even close to many customers SLAs...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

If primaray server hang, baclients tried to connect on secondary replication server and never come back on primary.

If primary replication server hang, clients tried to connect on the secondary and never come back on secondary until CAD service isrestarted. I think this should not append and clients should automaticly reconnect on primary. Also, this is for bac...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

WORM directive for Directory Container Pool with Spectrum Scale immutable fileset

Specify WORM at Spectrum Protect level when writing to a Directory container pool when using Spectrum Scale immutability function on the fileset so Backups can be compliant with a series of security needs.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

TSM VE 6.4 support double-byte VM host name

In case of double-byte like Japanese VM host name, VMware off-host backups using vStorage for Data Protection API was stop backup as error. Could you fix this limitation of Single Byte character. Request environment:vSphere 4.1 TSM Server V6.3.3 W...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

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