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    Address weak security keystore in Spectrum Protect Plus

    Security enhancement, could possibly be considered a flaw in current security postures of the Product. When deploying a VADP proxy, and the existing server to have the proxy installed on is in "FIPS" mode the following message is produced, prevent...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Identify each Restore Process choosing a name

    In the jobmonitoring panel all restore process are showed with the same name " onDemandRestore". We should have the possibility to choose a name by restore process.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Support for Windows CSVFS

    Support for Windows CSVFS (introduced in Windows 2008-R2).In windows 2012 Microsoft drastically improved the usage cases for Windows CSV where you can use Scale-Out fileservers in a active-active windows failover cluster configuration which give t...
    almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

    TSM Auto-Deploy/OC and roadmap for ability to Custom Install Package

    We are looking for the ability to add a custom installable component like "TSM Web Client" to an auto-deploy upgrade.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

    Drive letter definition per Windows client.

    Currently Windows client mount drive letters can only be defined when a cluster is created. This is inflexible if a drive letter is not defined on a cluster and Windows clients need adding later. The only workaround is to create a remote cluster t...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Functionality already exists

    Central confuguration of Enableinstrumentation parameters by client option set

    ENABLEINSTRUMENTATION is set to "on" by default and can only be turned off locally via option in dsm.sys/dsm.opt. It can be highly advisable to be able to set this option dynamically via client option set option along with instlogmax and instrlogn...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

    Broadcast a warning message when the active logical volumes are near the logical volume license

    In the current design, there is no alert setting that will broadcast a warning message when the active logical volumes managed is near the logical volume license. Many customers rely on automation to get an alert from any subsystem in their enviro...
    about 6 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Future consideration

    Excluding virtual mount points from backups

    Need option to exclude the virtual mount points from backups
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

    TDP for SQL Integration with CDC for SQL

    How to make it possible to create a custom script in IBM Spectrum Protect SQLServer to run every 8 hours and perform backup and erase logs only from the last 4 hours, keeping 4 hours of logs on the SQLServer disk. We have a use case where two IBM ...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

    Allow exclude vm disks in the TSM4VE GUI (or select/include only particular disks to be backed up for a VM)

    We utilise TSM4VE to take backups of the system disk only of virtual servers like SQL. TSM4VE requires manual entries in the dsm.opt file. This is cumbersome and error prone, and having inclusions for disks available in the GUI would make this pro...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

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