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TSM Operations Center Alert Summaries Interval Change

Allow for a change to the time interval for email alert summaries by email. Currently, alert summaries are sent approximately every hour. My request was to allow for daily summaries. In addition, the ability to modify the email alert summaries to ...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

TSM for VE support for vCAC - VMware vCloud Automation Center

Customer at MIT has learned that VMware is moving away from vCloud Director and towards vCloud Automation Center. Initial response from TSM Development is "no plans to support vCAC". If Customer cannot back up vCAC environment with TSM, they may t...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Ability to save RMAN backup as archive objects instead of backup

In order to not rely on Oracle DBA to purge old backups, it would be very helpfull to be able to store RMAN backups as archive objects, which have a predetermined lifetime. Even though the Oracle backup udtility might expect to have some data whic...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

TSM Client Pre/Post

Reporting on the TSM Server of the status of TSM client pre/post schedule actions
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

SSL/LTS Certificate revocation

SSL/LTS Certificate revocation The product should contain a mechanism which can deal with certificate revocation in a sensible way. Currently TSM will allow the use of a revoked certificate.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Assign multiple datamover to a single vapp

For large vapps, one dm is not enough. It should be possible to assign multiple datamovers to one vapp (or multiple datamovers per vdc)
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Restore single vm from vapp

Select a single vm from a vapp that should be restored. Either as a new vapp, or import to an existing. Must be available from the web gui.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Not under consideration

Enable TSM API to access/process TSM backup client contents

We are going to implement the API to automate the commands "query backup" and "restore" as a web service with unicode support. Unfortunately, this task can't be completed successfully, although we orient on the code that was provided with the SAMP...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Can IBM repackage the C++ installer to install to the same folder as TSM along with the TSM Client install

Can IBM repackage the C++ installer to install to the same folder as TSM along with the TSM Client install?
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Not under consideration

TSM OC DRM Support

The Administration Center is aging and outdated. The Admin Center is only supported in UNSUPPORTED browsers (Firefox 3.6) or outdated browsers (IE 8). The Operations Center looks to be its replacement. Functionality of the OC however is very lacki...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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