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Storage Protect Family

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TSM - Individual Accountability (SYS5013)

Improve Userid security/ individual accountability in IBM Storage Devices
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Physical Tape Libraries and Drives (SYS4998)

Improve Userid security/ individual accountability in IBM Storage Devices
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

TSM TDP for Database restore support for MSSQL with Change Data Capture (CDC)

Support for restoring a MSSQL database with Change Data Capture (CDC) enabled to a different server, and keep CDC enabled after restore.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

Encrypted NDMP backups

Support of encrypting storage pools used for NDMP backups.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

devclass with new nocheck parameter

Hi, I need a library or devclass parameter which will override the necessary volume mount (and the label check) on the server in a storage agent environment. I would be very nice to install a virtual central tsm server without san and storage agen...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

capacity calculation with file pool and private volumes

Hi, i need a devclass file parameter which will influence the calculation of free space in file pools. I implement file pools with private volumes only. The maxscratch parameter is null. It works very fine but the space calculation is very bad. Th...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

Prevent massive Tape cleaning requests after Tape read error

When a Tape read error occurs, TSM loads the tape to another Tape drive and issues a cleaning request for the first drive. This process will be repeated for all remaining tape drives.TSM should discover this situation and mark the tape as unreadab...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

new authority class "QUERY" for query and select privilege

In order to restrict the query and select commands for all the administrators having only client owner authority I put "QUERYAuth<br /> Storage" in dsmserv.opt. In order to monitor the server activity, I    have defined the ad...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Operational backup restart Delegation

Operational Delegation the ability to restart backup from the Admin Center, monitor daily schedules, and easy click restart within the admin center.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Not under consideration

TSM for MQ

Hi,We would like do MQ backups online with TSM.It is possible on next TSM releases? Thanks
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

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