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Storage Protect Family

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SSL/TLS Certificate Deployment

SSL/TLS certificate deployment to clients using a TSM command and mechanism The product should contain a mechanism which can deploy cert256.arm files (or their equivalents) to registered clients. This should work for both new enablements of encryp...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

SSL/TLS Certificate Handling

The product should contain a mechanism to set up and administer SSL in FIPS compliant mode without requiring non-TSM commands. We would like to see TSM server commands for importing certificates. The encryption configuration should be kept in the ...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

tsm problem

一般场景下,TSM集中备份系统中,有90%的数据是通过TSM API方式备份(如数据库、mail、OS等应用的备份)。但通过API接口传输的备份数据,无法从TSM SERVER上查询到每次备份数据量的汇总信息、传输速率信息等。对此情况,用户使用体验极差,基本从TSM SERVER上无法获取到每次通过API备份的数据量信息,很难评估各应用系统备份数据信息。用户的不良反馈,给TSM备份方案的推广造成了极大不利影响,也给技术服务商造成了巨大的困难。
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

provide tsm sysback support for aix vios servers

we would like to see tivoli tsm sysback support so we could backup/restore aix vios servers
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

Support for installing TSM EE 7.1 on RHEL5

Add ability to install/upgrade TSM EE v7.1 on RHEL5.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Exclude Objects from Systemstate Backup

User should be able to exclude files from backup even if they belong to the Systemstate.Missing Systemstate files should not create errormessages and/or returncodes when excluded by the user. User should be able to define a List of errors and warn...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

allowing include file from command line

dsmc does not allow to specify an include file from the command line.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Windows 2012R2 support voor TDP for MS SQL

What is the roadmap vor TSM TDP for MSSQL to support Windows 2012R2? The current version supports up to Windows 2012. (TSM TDP for MS SQL 7.1)
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

dsmreconcileGPFS.pl modification request

The dsmreconcileGPFS.pl script will fill up the /var filesystem during the sort process, in spite of there being more than 1GB available and I am using the "-tmpdir=" option.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 2 Is a defect

TSM backup support for EMC Greenplum

EMC Greenplum is big data appliance and customer need it to protect with TSM. I don't see any function which talk about such backups. So I am looking for document or reference that TSM can backup Greenplum data.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration