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« Key Management Interoperability Protocol » (KMIP) support

We would like the IBM TS4500 library to support the KMIP protocol in order to use a different encryption key manager than the IBM SGKLM software
8 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

Update of SPP image in Azure Market Place to a more recent version

The customer is deploying SPP on prem and in Azure Cloud. While they are at 10.1.15 in their on-prem setup, the image in Azure market place is still at 10.1.11, which is outdated. Request to update the Azure Marketplace image to at least 10.1.14
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Needs more information

Nodes with retention sets require to have dedicated metadata to be replicated to target server void expiration of data

Hi Team, i having issue in performance on Source TSM server due to TSM DB size is more than 13TB in size, so my management requested to split current TSM server with Multiple server (2 new TSM server). So by moving Filesystem backup for top 40serv...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

remove systemV init.d script for DSMCAD

The current packaging of TIVsm-BA includes a symbolic link /etc/init.d/dsmcad -> /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/rc.dsmcad which results in the creation of the directory /etc/init.d if it does not already exist. This is incompatible with the chkc...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

provide SPP micro-agent installation packages

Customer organization has separation of responsibilities such that pushing micro-agents (specifically file-level indexing micro-agent) is onerous and time consuming. In similar cases in their organization, an agent installation package (including ...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Web based Blue-print document for Spectrum protect /plus

We are using Blue-Print document to configure our environment for Spectrum protect / plus. This is document and many times it gets ignored by customers to configure their environment. It is important to refer blue-Print document before sizing / co...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Provide OC / SP error that will notify us when server instance crash or hang

Is there an OC / SP error that will notify us when dsmserv is down (db2 is either down or up) and, notify us when an instance appears to be hung? IF that can be produced later on that would be a great advantage to keep administrators ahead with an...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Add "Remove" disk to Virtualize GUI

Add "remove disk" function to the GUI. To remove a disk required using the CLI. In the above ticket, the SV1 phoned home for a drive throwing errors. It was determined the drive needed to be replaced. The SSR went on site and was working with the ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

When we increase a disk of a VMClient a Full VE backup is the result.

When we change a VMClient disk for example from 5TB to 10GB TSM is making a full VE backup.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Future consideration

TSM Client Support for ZFS on Linux filesystems

ZFS has been ported to Linux distributions, namely, Redhat Linux and other SysV environments. This RFE proposes to enable support for ZFS on Linux filesystems as a natively supported filesystem for backup and archive via the standard Linux TSM BA ...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

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