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Storage Protect Family

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Allow server side encyption on DISK and DirectoryContainer storage pools

TSM server (IBM Spectrum Protect) cannot do server side encryption for storage pools that are not either LTO or cloud-based. We'd like to have an option to enable encryption on DISK or DirectoryContainer based storage pools (knowing that deduplica...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Fine control for node replication of databases

When database RPO is 24hrs or more, it makes no sense to replicate the database transaction logs (Oracle, MSSQL, DB2). Transaction logs do not deduplicate and therefore accounts for a significant overhead in cross-site replication. It would be goo...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Need TSM client timeout

There should be some way to automatically recover from issue when TSM client could not communicate to TSM server in the middle of the session.Imagine the situation:1. Archive session was started from the client2. Client successfully connected to t...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 0 Not under consideration

Delete schedule via VMCLI

We use VMCLI to schedule "run now" schedules in TSMVE via a custom script. After a few days the schedule page in the web gui is full and will not load. We want the ability to remove (now) schedules via VMCLI so that we can cleanup the schedule lis...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Increase maximum value of archive retention field

Increase Maximum Value of Spectrum protect retention paramaters to extend retention up to 100 years. Customers in legal and compliance field require to retain and automatically delete data for 100 years. The current maximum retention is 30,000 day...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

deduplication issue

Backup taking long time after winodws deduplication is enabled on windows 2012 server
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Not under consideration

Client should deliver a possible patch/update level of an OS

New client-versions deliver information about the OS into the TSM-server.APAR IT13056 refers to OS Windows 2012 R2 Update 1.At the moment a TSM-admin has no possibilty to see whether a client has installed this update or not.Only the user of the c...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Support of AIX V7R2 with TSM V7R1 (latest version)

The requirement is a support of of AIX V7R2 with TSM V7R1 (latest version).Current, TSM V7R1 has support AIX V7R1. AIX V7R2 isn't included.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Database temp space usage

Currently any large SQL queries results in using up all the remaining DB space. This causes shutdown and loss of service.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

could you please correct a document?

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21672351 If 6.4.2 is not supported for 5.1 U3, could you please update this information to the technote for clarity ? (I think we can clear the support information when you create the sigle table fo...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

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