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Storage Protect Family

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Analytics on error logs for faster resolution times

Analytics on error logs for faster resolution times
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

All-in-one TSM backup appliance

TSM virtual appliance (VA) consisting of TSM server, TSM-VE and TSM Ops Center components, with support for using TSM VA with tape as a supported product in a customer production environment, also with the possibility to pair the appliance with an...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

TDP for SQL - password exposed in task list

Product: TDP for SQL Description: During query, backup or restore operations, the admin password for accessing TDP for SQL GUI is exposed by hovering over the task list. Please see the attached image.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

Possibility to throttle backup client resource utilization.

Possibility to throttle backup client resource utilization. Many times there are resource conflict for backups that are running “overtime”. The backup has been/is running until outside backup window. And the user, application owner want to cancel/...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

VM Quiescing

VM Quiescing
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

TSM fo VE / More fine granular user priviliges for Web GUI

Currently, the vSphere access permissions for any vSphere user that wants to use TDP for VMware GUI must be defined on datacenter level. That means, every user always sees everything and ALL VMs under the specified datacenter. He can do backup and...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Ability to lock/unlock a node in TSM Operations Center GUI

To make Operations Center GUI more useful for this account, we need to have the ability to lock/unlock client nodes from the interface, so that the person using the GUI for monitoring does not have to resort to running the commands at the command ...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Not under consideration

add password set/change in tdpoconf

Currently the tdpoconf utility only allows for password set/change actions via a terminal prompt. This prevents a scripted automated setup and doesn't seem consistent with the other TSM clients (ba client, tdp for sqlserver, etc) which already sup...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

TSM tablespace version

Customer would like to make sure that once they upgrade from TSM 6.2 to TSM 7.1 their TSM database tablespaces will be updated to latest level in a seamless way. They are worried of what happened with the migration of tablespaces between 9.5 and 9...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

NTFS 8dot3 support during System State restore

The users have good data protection feelings, if the restore process is simple and straight.But after a Windows systemstate restore during Bare Metal Restore, the remaining filesystem restore shows error ANS1796I because 8dot3 is not activated.mor...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

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