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TSM for VE / Reporting Enhancements / Software Compliance-Compatability report

Integrated report between TSM/VE and vCenter on Software versions for the following components: . vCenter . ESXihost . VM Hardware . VMtools . TSM/VE Server . TSM/VE Datamover
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

TSM for VE / Reporting Enhancement / VE Configuration report for troubleshooting & restores

VE Configuration report for restores to include the following columns: . VM Name . VM OS Platform . ESXi Cluster name . Datamover VE name . Datamover hostname . TSM/VE Server . Mount Proxy VE Name (based on the VM OS platform) . Mount Proxy hostname
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

ELB not managed by TPC/R

For an effective and convenient management of a DS8000 replication environment, it would be very useful if TPC-R could manage ELB timeout for every LCU/LSS in a MM/MGM environment. In fact, a clear display of this parameter for the session (e.g. t...
over 11 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

Ability to specify Node replication parameters on each node

To increase security in the node replication feature, we would like to have the option to specify the target TSM server IP, Port, Nodename and Nodepassword on individual nodes - instead of global settings, which requires server-to-server communica...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Full Active Directory Intergration

Full Active Directory Integration as a single signon solution
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

SVC volume naming and sorting

When using the web GUI to create multiple volumes the only option for appending a numerical suffix is to use base 10 numbers. Would like the ability to append a hex number, or even better would be to be able to use the last several digits of the U...
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Mailbox Restore Browser functionality for Exchange 2016

I would like the Mailbox Restore Browser functionality added for Exchange 2016
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to use the "dedup_device" with TSM for ERP (DB2) Product

Customer backup its DB2 database with Sp. Protect (ex TSM) ; backup storage is ProtecTIER (IBM Open deduplication solution). In order to boost both backup / restaure performances and deduplication ratio the 'dedup_device' option has been be set up...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Not under consideration

SSH ACCESS

Could you please provide SSH access in order to automatize some operations like backup of the conf ?
over 1 year ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Not under consideration

TRUE GUI

Why the GUI has a limited window size ? When it will be modern ?
over 1 year ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Not under consideration

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