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Storage Protect Family

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Bring lin_tape source into the Linux kernel

The lin_tape drivers are causing us trouble either when the OS kernel is being updated, or if the drivers need an update. Keeping a high patch level for security patches is very important on backup servers, since the backup servers generally have ...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

GPFS+TSM+HSM: staging vs. migration priority

What we are looking for is a configuration based parameter what willbasically break out of the "transparency for the user" mode, and notperform any further recalling, period, if|when the file systemoccupancy is above a certain threshold (98%). We ...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 0 Not under consideration

Production restore folder

"Restore in production mode if Vcenter is down" option works but this restore creates a directory in the datastore with the name of VM. If the VM folder is not identical to VM name, the production restore doesn't maitain the original name.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Can not replicate nodes based on policy domain membership

IBM Spectrum Protect Server v8.1.9.300:Can not replicate nodes based on policy domain membership Currently, the replicate node command works on node names, lists of node names, wildcards of node names, node groups, or lists of node groups. We wish...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Support AES-Features of CPU

The encryption in TSM is handled by the GSKcrypt-library. Since GSKit 8.0 the library supports the hardware-encryption for several CPUs, like:- SPARC- Intel- PowerUsing VMWare 6.0 one can even use this CPU-feature in a VM. TSM Clients should be en...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Support for Spectrum Protect Container Storage Pools Greater Than 1PiB

Currently, container storage pools have a limit of 1PiB per Protect server. For backing up very large environments (such as Spectrum Scale), this can lead to a proliferation of Protect servers, increasing the complexity of the solution.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

SPP - Support for Centrify dzdo where sudo is called

Spectrum Protect Plus has a requirement for the Linux sudo command to be present for installation and configuration tasks. My customer has a security requirement where sudo commands are not allowed. Customer uses Centrify dzdo to provide the eleva...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Want TSM TDP for SQL client to exclude offline SQL DBs from backups and log a message about the same in the log file.

Want TSM TDP for SQL client to exclude offline SQL DBs from backups and log a message about the same in the log file. Currently what happens is whenver TDP SQL backup encounter an offline SQL DB backup get failed for DB and return code for the bac...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

Allow signed certificates instead of only self-signed for TSM TDP VMWare GUI website

The certificate being used for the website is self-signed and give a error in browser and VMware Vsphere client
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

2 factor authentication in the IBM Spectrum Protect Server (TSM)

As a safety factor, we now have the 2FA (2 factor authentication) issue. An example is DUO installed on aix machines.For the TSM Server application do you have something planned for this?If so, what is the forecast for the product?
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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