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Allow individual filespaces to be decommissioned - specifically for use with NAS nodes and Netapp NDMP backups

Currently TSM (Spectrum Protect) offers two DECOMMISSION commands which are DECOMMISSION NODE and DECOMMISSION VM. However for NAS (NDMP) backups typically a node will be configured for each filer which will have numerous volumes being backed up v...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Use a linux web client to do NDMP restores

There does not appear to be a way to restore a NDMP backup via a linux GUI client. This means that in order to do a restore a windows server needs to be provisioned, maintained and available purely for restoration purposes.
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

SP for Databases warning for restoring VSS backups

A warning and summary should be implemented to confirm any kind of restore. When in the SP for Databases GUI, it is possible with 1 wrong click to initiate a SQL DB restore on a (production) system (log and full SQL)This should prevent "accidental...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Not under consideration

Implement Incremental NDMP backup for NetApp filers

We would like to be able to run incremental backups of our Netapp filer using NDMP. ie be able to run a command similar to backup node netapp1 /vol/backup mode=incrEven if the number of incrementals was limited.
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Not under consideration

Reporting in TSM Operations Center

Given that TSM Operations Center is the direct replacement to the no longer maintained Administration Center, it would be nice to incorporate the Tivoli Common Reporting features into the TSM Operations Center.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 4 Not under consideration

DB2 problems are not reported to TSM

see also 36996,033,724. here the TSM server crashed hours after the first error occurrence. No warnings in actlog. thats not acceptable. DIA8411C A file "S0035583.LOG" could not be found.DIA8312C Disk was full.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

VTS / VIRTUAL VOLUMES SEARCH / possibility to NOT save searches

In virtual Volume Search interface we want to have possibility to clic on option "save search request?" if we want to save this new request search in the "previous Searches"
over 2 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Future consideration

TSM VE backups snapshots filling up datastore and crashing VM.

Please add an option in TSM that automatically cancels a VM backup when the snapshot is filling up the datastore. Without this functionality, the VM will crash and often requires extensive work for the VMware administrator to clean up the mess and...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Business unit field per VM

For reporting purpose it would be useful to have an option to add information per VM.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SVC Audit Log Only Viewable for Privileged User

Currently the audit log can be viewed/downloaded by a ‘monitor' level accountThe audit requirement is that this information should only be accessible by a privileged (admin) account or an auditor level account as per DS8000Applied to SVC and V7000
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

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