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TSM Server "Define Clientaction" Command Issue

System: TSM Server all versions Actor: Define Clientaction Command need to be trimmed with "REQUIRED" parameters. Description: TSM Server, "define clientaction" command is not having any required paramters right now. If we run "define clientaction...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

Worm requirement to honor the TMC expiratoin date when a volume is created.

Wells Fargo has a TS7700 related Worm requirement that would have the Ts7700 honor the expiration date specified by the Tape Management Catalog when a volume is created. This would prevent the volume from being inadvertently or maliciously scratch...
over 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

File sync tools and Spectrum Scale permissions

Copying data in Spectrum Scale, especially from external sources, can be problematic at times due to the way permissions work. This is particularly a problem when data needs to be synced through time in preparation for cutting over from a new exte...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Support more Kafka Authentication Methods

Currently, SASL using plaintext username/password is the only Auth method supported for using the Notification feature in COS. Customers would like to use Kafka's more secure authentication methods. The request is to support all of the auth method...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

Ability to split/join storage pools from disparate COS systems

Customers would like to have flexibility with moving/splitting/joining storage pools under the ownership of different COS systems. For example, if a customer must divest a certain portion of data, but the rest, but also keep COS, there is no way t...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

TSM reports RC4 rather than RC12 Failed when an NFS volume mounts okay, but permission to underlying directories is denied

NFS share backup scheduled backup not reporting a failure when TSM server cannot back up directory due to permission denied. The event table reports the schedule with a return code 4. The permission to the underlying directories (NetApp qtrees) mo...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

TSM for VE: Enhance Scheduling with vCenter Tags

In vCenter is is possible to set "Tags" or "Custom Attributes" to a VM. E.g. Productive, Preproductive, Test. It would be great if these Tags can be used within a Schedule of a TSM for VE Backup.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Autoskip integrity for Exchange DAG backups

An option like /AUTOSKIPINTEGRITYCHECK would be nice to have in Exchange DAG setups, so that the DP agent/FCM itself could check if the specified database/databases has/have 2 or more healthy copies - if it that would be the cause, it would automa...
about 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 3 Planned for future release

this applies to Spectrum CDM: Show Jobs IDs and SLA Policies IDs in CDM GUI

Client remark: When a user defines in Spectrum CDM GUI a new backup or restore job, and also when a user defines a new "SLA Policy", a unique ID is assigned to the job and a unique ID is assigned to the SLA Policy. Both IDs are used @ storage subs...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Future consideration

TSM FileClient for high resolution displays

We use Lenovo X1 Notebooks with high resolution displays. The TSM Fileclient on the Notebooks with Windows 10 is tiny. Other application fit or could scale to the resolution.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

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