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Storage Protect Family

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Enhancement to the new node 'decommission' command

TSM 7.1.3 introduces a new command called 'decommission node' Can this be enhanced to have a date option to specify a future date other than the default retention policy? Example: "decommission node xxxx date=12/31/2015 ...."
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Enable the use of VPC Endpoint Interface URL for S3 bucket access when defining Cloud Container Storage Pool in Operations Ce

When defining a cloud container storage pool, an option of 'Other' URL is given, and in the CLI a CLOUDUrl can be specified with a custom URL. Instructions say to use the region S3 endpoint URL. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-protect/8.1.11?...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

Request Compatiblity Between TSM Ver 7, Rel 1, Level 0.100 and Ver 5, Rel 5, Level 7.0 with Oracle Linux Server release 6.9

System: Storage Management Server for AIX - Version 7, Release 1, Level 0.100 and Storage Management Server for AIX-RS/6000 - Version 5, Release 5, Level 7.0.Actor: VALE Request: Vale is implementing an Oracle Cloud Migration Project in Oracle EXA...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Hide filenames for TSM administrators

When a client requests to encrypt files in a backup, filenames and directories are available in clear text in the database, fully accessible by administrators. Secret information may be revealed. This is a major show stopper for MSPs and CSPs in t...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

We want TSM for VE client skip backup of all other VM's on that data-store once the backup job has detected the out-of-space

Statefarm is using TSM for VE (Data Mover Node) to back up virtual desktop from Citrix/VMware Infrastructure. When Data Store run out of space for any reason, backup of vm fails but TSM for VE client keep trying to backup next VM in same data stor...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Tivoli Storage Management Operation Center At risk management for VMs

Tivoli Operation Center display excluded or removed VMs as "at risk".
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Stronger passwords for TSM

Expanded character set for TSM passwords to meet industry standard complexity requirements. Most places require a password with the following: * Are at least eight alphanumeric characters long* Contain at least three of the following four categori...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

MOVE NODEDATA command enhancement

One form of the MOVE NODEDATA command allows the movement of selected file spaces of a single node between storage pools. For example, MOVE NODEdata node_name FROMstgpool=source_pool_name TOstgpool=destination_pool_name FIlespace=file_space_name H...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Database Report

the SPP does not have a specific report for databases with the total consumed separately from the VMs
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

TSM support for Oracle VM and Oracle Enterprise Linux

My customer addressed TSM as their standard product that provides backup archive across various platform (AIX,Windows,Linux(RHEL,SLES)Recently Oracle Linux and Oracle were installed in their environment. My customer ask TSM to support Oracle VM an...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

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