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    TSM-VE : better management of VM which have non cleaned snapshots from previous backups

    The purpose of this request is to ask product management team two things:- to make available a report, for instance through the vCenter plug-in , that shows if virtual machines that are being protected by TSM-VE, have non cleaned snapshots. It wil...
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

    Access to AWS S3 buckets with object lock enabled via a VPC Endpoint

    For security reasons we must access AWS S3 buckets via a VPC Endpoint. We also require that the S3 bucket has object lock enabled. We have set this up and tested it and it does not currently work. We are able to read/write to the S3 bucket via a V...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Requirements and design to deal with 10 billion of indexed files

    Spectrum Discover with Spectrum Protect Customer wants to build a spectrum discover environment which handles up to 12 billion indexed files we are testing Spectrum Discover with 02 Spectrum Protect servers as data sources. Only these two server r...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Planned for future release

    Ticket overview in Storage Insights

    We would like to have the possibility to view all tickets, open ongoing tickets and closed aswell in the same window. As for now we have no overview to see all tickets but we have to manually open the "Tickets" tab under each system.
    over 6 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

    Fix BKI6243E error for HANA with SSL enforced

    TSM to work with sslEnforce = True parameter on SAP HANA database
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Future consideration

    LDAP - implement nested groups support

    Enterprise environments that implement LDAP need to support LDAP nested groups.
    over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Future consideration

    Servermon (Windows) is using cmd to archive servermon files, located in <instance_dir\srvmon

    To protect our ISP Server environment on Windows against Ransomware attacks, we are using the program Blocky for TSM from Grau Data. We can whitelist all programs and applications to update the critical files in the filesysems, like db, log and in...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Update notification for gui-clients when new version is available

    We have a lot of not technically savvy customers (their pcs are not managed by the backup-admins) which are not checking for client updates on their own.I think it would be useful to have a popup notification when an client update is available (as...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

    Utilize NetApp Snapshots for Spectrum Protect Plus backups

    Please investigate allowing Spectrum Protect Plus to perform an array-based Snapshot on NetApp systems for VMware vSphere backups. The software could trigger vSphere snapshots on the VMs in a datastore to remove the write lock from the VMDK and ca...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect (TSM) client for Linux on System z has no GUI client since 8.1.2 release

    The IBM Spectrum Protect client for System z no longer has a means to access a newer release (8.1.2 or newer) server due to so called improvements in security between clients and server. Previously, clients were able to communicate with the server...
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 6 Future consideration

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