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Copy container pool to cloud pool

Spectrum Protect (TSM) currently does not support the use of cloud pools as protection for container pools. The Copy Container functionality should be enhanced to support the used of cloud pools (in addition to tape) as a way to protect an on-prem...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

.NET Wrapper for TSM API

A mono-project (http://www.mono-project.com/) wrapper for the TSM API is desirable, in order to ease development of utilities and add-ons to the TSM Server
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Reallowing non-root Spectrum Scale connections to Spectrum Discover after ESS security enhancements

Spectrum Scale connections are considered the most effective way to provide metadata from IBM ESS storage to Spectrum Discover since both systems are IBM-based. The following IBM video guide outlines the steps for correctly set up Scale connection...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Functionality already exists

Event log enhancements

Enhanced monitor of internal process and better detail on issues. Lack of reporting on critical internal components hinders determination of issues and recovery.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

SVC - Cron Backup control over scheduling

SVC Cron backup runs at the same time but collides with other workload processes. Would like to be able to update the backup to a better time frame within out envrionment to reduce impact and ensure backup failures do not occur as we have seem
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

Move backups between nodes (datamovers)

Moving data from a datamover node to a datacenter node is not possible when it is mis-stored. Currently, with container pools, the only option is to delete those backups, or manually track them separately.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

REPLTCPSERVERADDRESS override

baclient and API need to allow persistent override of REPLTCPSERVERADDRESS or similar functionality.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 3 Future consideration

TSM Admin Center(tip) needs support for Firefox 6 and beyond.

TSM Admin Center - tip(tivoli integrated portal) does not support firefox 6 and beyond. It needs to support firefox 6 and beyond for currency in our environment.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 6 Not under consideration

BA Client for ARM/ARM64

ARM architecture user base is growing, and ARM servers needs protection too.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Not under consideration

Certificate used on port 1751

DS8950F -> Port 1751 have Certificate lifespan is longer than 5 years root CA=/C=US/postalCode=85744/ST=Arizona/L=Tucson/O=International Business Machines/OU=Storage Systems/CN=ESSNI_NIST Issuer: C=US/postalCode=85744, ST=Arizona, L=Tucson, O=I...
almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration